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Financial system could be destabilized by stranded carbon-intensive assets, warns Bank of Canada

By Carl Meyer | Analysis, Climate Change

New York to Trump: Cut your emissions or pay the price

By Oliver Milman | Analysis, Climate Change

For the first time since 1882, Britain goes a week without coal

By Jasper Jolly | Analysis, Climate Change

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

The 10-minute interview: Ariane Tabatabai on tensions over the embattled Iran nuclear deal

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Interviews, Nuclear Risk, The Iranian problem

Fox News made the US a hotbed of climate denial. Kids are the cure.

By Dana Nuccitelli | Analysis, Climate Change

The USS Abraham Lincoln on a 2012 mission in the Persian Gulf. US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jerine Lee.

The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign: A prelude to war with Iran?

By Dina Esfandiary | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, The Iranian problem

New York’s plan to make 50,000 buildings super-efficient

By Kriston Capps | Analysis, Climate Change

The 10-minute interview: Werner Herzog on Meeting Gorbachev

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons

person on top of crates of medical supplies

What the future may hold for the Strategic National Stockpile for Biodefense

By Dina Weilhammer, Thomas Bates | Analysis, Biosecurity, Explain This, Technology and Security

How the media can stop failing on climate change

By Emily Holden | Analysis, Climate Change

The Kingsbury was one of the Sri Lankan hotels and churches targeted by suicide bombers on April 21. Credit: AKS.9955 via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.

Sri Lanka blocked Facebook after the Easter bombings, but was social media really a problem?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by ©World Economic Forum via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

What Russia thinks about North Korea’s nuclear weapons

By Anastasia Barannikova | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons