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The Green New Deal: One climate scientist’s view, from the other side of the Atlantic

By Myles Allen | Climate Change, Opinion

Adults won’t take climate change seriously. So we, the youth, are forced to strike.

By Isra Hirsi, Haven Coleman, Alexandria Villaseñor | Climate Change, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

missiles and N Korea flag

What to make of the collapse of the Hanoi summit

By Ankit Panda | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, also known as the Vit Plant, covers 65 acres with four nuclear facilities in southeastern Washington state. Credit: Bechtel National

“Incidental” nuclear waste: reconceiving a problem won’t make it go away

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

smokestacks and orange sky

A Green New Deal must not sabotage climate goals

By Dana Nuccitelli | Climate Change, Opinion

Making sense of the 2018 National Biodefense Strategy

By Rachel Bartholomew, Kristin Omberg | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Hollywood sign submerged in sand

When it rains, it acid-rains

By Dan Drollette Jr | Opinion, What We’re Reading

The red rock region of public lands in Utah. Photo Credit: Wayne Stadler, Creative Commons.

US public lands: An overlooked piece of the climate solution

By Jamie Williams | Climate Change, Opinion

Trump's tweet about global warming.

The 2018 list of the worst in anti-science

By Jeremy Schulman | Climate Change, Opinion

An orange and white conical craft in outer space.

Washington sparks a space spat at the United Nations

By Paul Meyer | Disruptive Technologies, Opinion

Research on smallpox continues today. Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control

Synthetic biology: A call for a new culture of responsibility

By Ali Nouri, Shahram Seyedin-Noor | Opinion, Synthetic biology

mushroom cloud video game

The ambivalent nuclear politics of Fallout video games

By Cameron Hunter | Nuclear Risk, Opinion