Weather whiplash—abrupt and disruptive shifts in weather conditions—are expected to become more common as global temperatures rise.

Bulletin contributor and Harvard University earth and planetary sciences professor Jerry X. Mitrovica was just awarded a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship yesterday for his work on sea level rise, and the reasons why it happens unequally across the globe—due to differences in the Earth’s crust, undersea topography, ocean circulation, and the way glaciers melt and oceans … Continued

Energiewende was exactly the right word for engaging Germany in a climate change revolution. What terminology should America use?

Feeling extra worried about climate change amid Caribbean hurricanes and western forest fires? Scott Pruitt says your fears are misplaced.

An effective method for reducing catastrophic risk involves capitalizing on characteristics or conditions shared among various threats.

Don’t know what to think of our new protector of the environment? A Mother Jones article from before his nomination reveals a lot.

You’re far more likely to die in an existential catastrophe than you think. And the risk of such a catastrophe is growing.

“The collective implications of severe weather are really rather intimidating,” says one expert.

Kolbert’s new book, Under a White Sky, explores the ways that humanity is attempting to engineer, fix, or reroute nature in a climate-changed world.

His message is simple: Nuclear weapons are not a force of nature, and they are not an act of god. We have built these with our own hands, and we know how to take them apart.

In 2013, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will launch "Voices of Tomorrow," which will feature a monthly essay, op-ed article, or multimedia presentation written or produced by a high school student, college undergraduate, or graduate student. The topic must address some aspect of at least one of the Bulletin's core issues of nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, climate change, biosecurity, or emerging technologies.

Parts of the Amazon and other tropical forests now emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb. This development, which was not incorporated into climate models, could put the temperature goals of the Paris Agreement out of reach.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E, is spending $10 million to research how to use plants to extract nickel from soil.

A homespun Rhode Island destination gets an offshore wind farm—and, mostly, likes it. Will massive offshore wind parks follow, powering America’s Northeast?

A legal scholar explains how Trump could lose and stick around anyway, through a combination of disinformation, COVID, political division, and the resulting "catastrophic breakdown" of our presidential election system.

When researchers traced the illegal production of banned, ozone-destroying chemicals to a handful of refrigerator factories in China in July, it seemed like an open-and-shut case. But is it?

Despite all the hype, geoengineering would not be simple or easy, or a one-time solution, or buy us any time. Instead, geoengineering would be a difficult undertaking that humanity would have to commit to essentially forever—and still not fix the underlying problem. Assuming it even works.

Ominously, climate change is a path the Earth has been down before. Just ask scientists studying “The Great Dying.”