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Cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood outside the US Capitol on April 10, 2018, placed there by the advocacy group Avaaz to call attention to fake accounts spreading disinformation on Facebook. Credit: Kevin Wolf/AP images for AVAAZ

Why Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are bad for the climate

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Why Rocket Man is going ballistic with short-range missiles

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Cover the climate crisis like it is one

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un oversees a "strike drill." Photo credit: KCNA

North Korean missiles: Size does not matter

By Duyeon Kim, Melissa Hanham | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Will splashy philanthropy cause the biosecurity field to focus on the wrong risks?

By Filippa Lentzos | Biosecurity, Columnists

Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger in 1965. His “silver” bullets were actually made from aluminum.

“Silver buckshot” isn’t enough to fix the climate

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Summit Datebook 2: After Hanoi, relieved but still curious

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

One of the flag "bouquets" adorning the old city portion of Hanoi. Photo by Duyeon Kim.

Summit datebook: From Hanoi, with curiosity

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Weapons

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, starring in the 1997 movie Titanic.

What we can learn about climate change from the Titanic

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Columnists

Two cartoons of Donald Trump, one showing him in the snow saying "whatever happened to global warming?," and one of him at night saying "whatever happened to the sun?"

Forecast: flurries of shivering climate-change deniers

By John Cook | Climate Change, Columnists

A nurse prepares a measles vaccine. Cases of the disease increased by 30 percent globally from 2016 to 2017. (Photo credit: Pete Lewis / Department for International Development)

From Africa to America, lack of public trust makes disease outbreaks worse

By Laura H. Kahn | Biosecurity, Columnists

What North Korea wants from the next US summit

By Duyeon Kim | Columnists, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons