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Essays: Why the Marshall Islands’ nuclear history still matters today

By Rose Gottemoeller, Sally Clark | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

A current security imperative: the US role in the Marshall Islands

By Rose Gottemoeller | Analysis, Nuclear Weapons, Personal Essay

Rebuttal: Current nuclear weapons policy not safe or sane

By Stewart Prager, Alan Kaptanoglu | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

conifers and mist

Plant power: Burning biomass instead of coal can help fight climate change—but only if done right

By Raymond Pierrehumbert | Analysis, Climate Change

seedling

Wood-burning: carbon hero or carbon villain? Q&A with forest modeling scientist Michael Ter-Mikaelian

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change

clearcut in British Columbia

“Sustainable biomass”— A paper tiger when it comes to reducing carbon emissions

By Mary S. Booth | Analysis, Climate Change

fire closeup

Introduction: Can we grow and burn our way out of climate change?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change

wood pellets burning, logs in background

Does wood bioenergy help or harm the climate?

By John Sterman, William Moomaw, Juliette N. Rooney-Varga, Lori Siegel | Analysis, Climate Change

coal smoke from steel mill, China

When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense

By Robert Abt, Christopher Galik, Justin Baker | Analysis, Climate Change

Working trip of the President of Ukraine to the Kyiv region. Creid: Official Website of the president of Ukraine. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0.

Russia committed war crimes. But are they genocide?

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Wheat. Credit: Rawpixel. CC0 1.0.

Global hunger crisis looms as war in Ukraine sends food prices soaring

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

P5 Press Conference at the United Nations. April 2013. Credit: U.S. Mission Geneva / Eric Bridiers. Accessed via Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/us-mission/8663813428 CC BY-ND 2.0.

Nuclear arms control: Still necessary, but more difficult than ever

By Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb | Analysis, Opinion