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.”

A nuclear expert explains why it's impossible to triple nuclear energy capacity by 2050.

As students flock back to school this week, nuclear weapons and nuclear risk will not be a standard part of class curricula. Why not?

Investing in a green economy will create about three times more jobs than maintaining our existing fossil fuel infrastructure. So what’s the problem with selling the existing Green New Deal to the country? Plenty, says an economist who has studied a number of different green energy plans.

An Australian researcher doing studies of the Great Barrier Reef gives her diagnosis of the Reef’s health—and a prescription.