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Climate Change

Americans elect a climate change denier (again)

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Opinion

Why this is a climate election—even if that hasn’t been apparent on the trail

By Andrew Revkin | Analysis, Climate Change, Opinion

Six quality Bulletin readings, curated for the concerned Election Day voter. With a dash of humor for sanity’s sake.

By John Mecklin | Analysis, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk

When maximizing food production manufactures disaster risk

By Charlie Mather, Gerald Singh | Oct 30, 2024 | Analysis, Climate Change, agriculture, animal agriculture, aquaculture, disaster risk, disasters, early warning systems, food production, food systems, industrial agriculture, industrial disasters, manufactured risk, normal accidents, perfect storm, salmon

A more common enemy: How climate change spreads diseases and makes them more dangerous

By Georgios Pappas | Oct 28, 2024 | Biosecurity, Climate Change, bacteria, fungi, Infectious disease, mosquitos, parasites, ticks, viruses

An existential timeline of the Trump/Pence and Biden/Harris presidencies

By Thomas Gaulkin, François Diaz-Maurin, Jessica McKenzie, Sara Goudarzi, Matt Field | Oct 23, 2024 | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, 2024 election, 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump, existential threats, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Mike Pence

A man walks towards a flooded river, across a mud-strewn road.

The role of the scientist in a post-truth world

By John Morales | Oct 16, 2024 | Climate Change, Opinion, 2024 election, climate misinformation, climate science, conspiracy theories, Pseudoscience, republication, social media, weather modification

Climate Change News & Articles

Meteorologist John Morales: There’s rapid intensification, there’s extreme rapid intensification—and then there’s Hurricane Milton

Fully-loaded container ships berth at a dock at the Port of Qingdao in Qingdao city, east Chinas Shandong province. DepositPhotos.com.

How modern slavery—in China and elsewhere—undermines the fight against existential threats

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite captured Hurricane Helene making landfall near Perry, Florida, just east of the Aucilla River's mouth on Sept. 26, 2024, at 11:10 p.m. EDT. With winds reaching 140 mph and storm surges estimated at as high as 15 feet, the Category 4 storm was among the most powerful to strike the United States.

Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future.

Top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci responds to accusations by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as he testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on July 20, 2021. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite-Pool/Getty Images)

Why science needs marketing

E-fuels are better for the climate than fossil fuels, so why haven’t they taken off yet?

national guard members carry bottle water after hurricane sandy

‘We’re not going fast enough’: Sherri Goodman on climate change as security threat

Fire burning at Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine

Nuclear power: future energy solution or potential war target?

map of the western united states and a solar farm

Permitting reform is back from the dead. Will lawmakers sacrifice America’s public lands to the fossil fuel industry?

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