Media outlets are focusing too heavily on the president and the numbers in their coverage of the coronavirus outbreak.

Global warming is melting away Greenland's ice sheet, leaving tons of sand behind. Who benefits?

UN report says that if we want to keep global warming at less than 2 degrees C, we need to get our emissions under control rapidly. Otherwise, we face catastrophic climate change.

Facing a resurgent Russia and an ambivalent America, some German analysts are calling for homegrown nuclear weapons. That would be a mistake.

The European Union said today it was deepening alliances with other signatories of the Paris Agreement to ensure its implementation and rejecting President Donald Trump’s demands to renegotiate the pact, said a story in the Reuters news service. The EU pledged to team up with China, the world’s largest climate polluter, to achieve the goal … Continued

DOOMSDAY CLOCK MOVES AHEAD: “Words Matter”: Board Marks 70th Anniversary of Iconic Clock By Expressing Concern About “Unsettling” and “Ill-Considered” Statements of President Trump on Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change; Developments in North Korea, Russia, India and Pakistan Also Highlighted. WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 26, 2017 – It is now two and a half minutes to … Continued

To debate whether China can lead the world toward nuclear disarmament, as my colleagues have done in this roundtable, is to ask the wrong question at the wrong time. China is not in the habit of tilting at windmills, and trying to shame Beijing into taking the disarmament lead is either evidence of desperation or … Continued

If the case that SARS2 originated in a lab is so substantial, why isn’t this more widely known? As is now obvious, there are many people who have reason not to talk about it.

Evidence is emerging that the Kremlin is applying its standard disinformation playbook to the global coronavirus pandemic. But that is a dangerous game.

The fate of US national security may rely on the president ignoring the advice of his national security adviser.

Constitutional caveats aside, there are five key actions a president could take to address climate change under a declaration of national emergency.

From essay award-winner to Foreign Policy author, in less than a year

In the case of Saudi Arabia, pure gold is not a realistic option

Key steps need to be taken to reduce the dangers posed by spent nuclear fuel stored in cooling pools. The most important: a reduction of the density of spent fuel assemblies now stored in these pools, and an expansion of on-site storage of used fuel in hardened “dry casks.”

As the March for Science approaches, new research sheds light on how advocacy by scientists affects the way they are perceived.

Tens of thousands of people came to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ website over the last week, looking for answers on what a new Trump administration means for the health and safety of our planet. As Bulletin editor John Mecklin writes, Donald Trump’s positions on serious questions have often ricocheted from side to side: … Continued

In this interview, American diplomat Rose Gottemoeller discusses reengaging with a saber-rattling Russia, negotiating with China, and how arms control frameworks can adapt to AI and other emerging technologies.

Over the last couple of weeks, tensions between the United States and Iran have flared and subsided, only to be reignited over the weekend as President Trump issued tweets seeming to threaten Iran’s very existence. And although many experts believe there is broad consensus in Iran that the benefits of staying in the nuclear deal … Continued

A much-anticipated interagency report on the staggering impacts of climate change in the United States dropped right in the middle of American's favorite day to shop. But the timing may not be all bad.

The Singapore summit was a kind of claustrophobic simulacrum of an international summit. Then the press conference got weird too.