Climate Change

Desalination: expensive, environmentally problematic, but increasingly necessary

By Jim Robbins | Analysis, Climate Change

Nuclear power and global climate change

By Ivan Andriushin, Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Patricia Schuster, Evgenii Varseev | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

What countries will be the most important in leading a significant expansion of global nuclear power—both from the perspective of the supplier and the user?

By Vladislav Kostikov, Anna Kudriavtseva, Cameron Tracy | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi at the Bushehr Nuclear Plant in 2015.

Should nuclear power be expanded significantly into developing countries?

By Yulia Katsenko, Oksana Mironchuk, Evgenii A. Veretennikov, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

What will be required for a significant expansion of global nuclear energy?

By Chantell Murphy, Vasily Safonov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 & 2 cooling towers and containment buildings.

Why nuclear power plants cost so much—and what can be done about it

By Daria Iurshina, Nikita Karpov, Marie Kirkegaard, Evgeny Semenov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

On a tour of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).

Resolving safety and security concerns about nuclear power

By Roman Bobrov, Julia Diamond, Khalit Shemshedinov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Will nuclear proliferation challenges limit a significant expansion of global nuclear power?

By Vladimir Kobezskii, Elliot Serbin | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

An example of dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel.

Will nuclear waste disposal challenges limit a significant expansion of global nuclear power?

By Aleksandr Kudryavtsev, Maria Levon, T. Gannon Parker, Viktor Rosnovskii | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

3-D model of Himalayan glaciers

How fast are Himalaya’s glaciers melting? Look at Cold War spy satellite photos

By Eric Niiler | Analysis, Climate Change

Defense Department emits more carbon dioxide than many countries

By Kate Yoder | Analysis, Climate Change

Trump and Kim impersonators

Gaseous molecules of freedom

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Climate Change, What We’re Reading