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glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Doomscrolling—the fun way! Our picks for best multimedia stories in 2024

By Erik English, Thomas Gaulkin | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Multimedia, Nuclear Risk

Sign reading "Caution Low Water Launch At Own Risk" at Great Salt Lake marina during a drought in front of naturally-colored grasses that look like fire.

How climate models could be underestimating drought

By Toby Ault | Climate Change

tearing hair out at meal with climate change-denier

Advice for Thanksgiving 2024: How to deal with the climate change-denier at the table

By Richard C. J. Somerville | Climate Change, Opinion, Special Topics

The slippery challenge of defining climate adaptation

By Jake Bittle | Climate Change

Can they control the weather? How the secretive history of weather weapons fuels conspiracy theories

By Justin Key Canfil | Climate Change

Why I’m not in Baku—and how to prevent further co-optation of UN climate summits

By Allison Morrill Chatrchyan | Climate Change

wildfire aftermathNew Jersey

It’s November, and the Northeast is on fire

By Paige Vega | Climate Change

interior of fusion experiment at MIT

Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

An overview of the fusion landscape

By Robert J. Goldston | Nuclear Energy

Welcome to the American petrostate

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change, Opinion

Meteorologist John Morales: There’s rapid intensification, there’s extreme rapid intensification—and then there’s Hurricane Milton

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change