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Known as pyramid tents or Scott tents, they’re essentially the same tent design used by the original polar explorers a hundred years ago, capable of withstanding winds of up to 70 miles per hour. “They’re just so good, they got the design perfect,” says the author. Image courtesy of Peter Davis.

Peter Davis of the British Antarctic Survey on changes in the Thwaites Glacier

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

The Alaska National Guard has been used to fight extensive Alaskan wildfires. (Photo by Sherman Hogue/Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office.)

Brian Brettschneider: How climate change has already arrived in the Arctic

By John Krzyzaniak | Climate Change, Interviews

A forest test plot, where snow was removed to see the effects of the lack of this insulating blanket. (Image courtesy of Pamela Templer.)

Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer    

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

2020 elections in South Korea

Interview: Duyeon Kim on South Korea’s elections in the midst of a coronavirus pandemic

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

scientific American science talks podcast biolabs biosecurity coronavirus pandemic disease elisabeth eaves

On biolabs and pandemic risk: Listen to Scientific American’s interview with editor Elisabeth Eaves

By Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Interviews

White House Situation Room Coronavirus briefing

How the coronavirus outbreak is like a nuclear attack: An interview with Jeffrey Lewis

By Jeffrey Lewis, John Krzyzaniak | Biosecurity, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Libya centrifuges

Interview: “Delaying Doomsday” author explains how to stop nuclear proliferation

By John Krzyzaniak | Interviews, Nuclear Risk

National security journalist Fred Kaplan

Interview: Trump’s nuclear insecurities and other secrets from the author of “The Bomb”

By Dawn Stover | Interviews, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

people on street marching with climate change signs

Sierra Club sues SEC, seeking information about alleged collusion with big oil

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

Former US Defense Secretary and current Bulletin Board of Sponsors chair William Perry

Former Defense Secretary William Perry: Why we must describe doomsday to keep it from happening

By John Mecklin | Doomsday Clock, Interviews, Nuclear Weapons

Commemorative cloth for the 50th anniversary of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission

Interview: Nuclear research and the quest for scientific equity in Ghana

By Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, John Krzyzaniak | Interviews, Nuclear Risk

Screenshots showing the two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and virtual reality versions of NUKEMAP.

Interview with Alex Wellerstein on NUKEMAP VR

By Alex Wellerstein, John Krzyzaniak | Interviews, Nuclear Weapons