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Best of the Bulletin, 2021: Beyond words

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Doomsday Clock, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Strange animal-nuclear tales

By Susan D’Agostino, Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

A biologist releases genetically modified mosquitoes in February 2016 in Piracicaba, Brazil. Technicians from the Oxitec laboratory released genetically modified mosquitoes Aedes Egypti to combat Zika virus. (Photo by Victor Moriyama/Getty Images)

Paradise altered: EPA approves first release of genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida Keys

By Taylor White | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies

Quannah Chasinghorse, the 18-year-old fighting to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

By Maia Wikler | Climate Change

Cows graze near a dead elephant.

Why are hundreds of African elephants dying?

By Phoebe Weston | Climate Change

sunflower sea star

Sea stars pushed to edge of extinction by warming oceans

By Rochelle Baker | Climate Change

Despite worldwide oil glut, Trump releases plan to open Arctic to drilling

By Emily Holden | Climate Change

Australian firefighter inspecting rare tree saved from fire

A rare species of tree was saved from Australia’s wildfires. And something else happened

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Sulphur wild horse in Southwestern Utah

Trump official says wild horses, not climate change, are “existential threat” to federal lands

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Norwegian authorities and a local fisherman helped free this beluga whale from a harness. Credit: Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries.

From Russia with blubber: a beluga whale spy on Arctic patrol?

By Matt Field | Climate Change, What We’re Reading