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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

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite captured Hurricane Helene making landfall near Perry, Florida, just east of the Aucilla River's mouth on Sept. 26, 2024, at 11:10 p.m. EDT. With winds reaching 140 mph and storm surges estimated at as high as 15 feet, the Category 4 storm was among the most powerful to strike the United States.

Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future.

By John Morales | Analysis, Climate Change

Parthenon undergoing renovations

Introduction: Securing elections, democracy, and the information ecosystem in a critical political year

By John Mecklin, Dan Drollette Jr | Special Topics

illustration of hands playing What-A-Mole with global threats.

Global threats don’t happen in silos. They shouldn’t be managed separately, either.

By Rumtin Sepasspour, Courtney Tee | Disruptive Technologies

Project 2025: The right-wing conspiracy to torpedo global climate action

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change

Desertification was supposed to be the ‘greatest environmental challenge of our time.’ Why are experts now worried about greening?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change

Eastern Europe’s purchase of US nuclear reactors is primarily about military ties, not climate change

By Maha Siddiqui, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

With new data, researchers attempt to overturn long-held theory on ice ages and climate change

By Louise Kim | Climate Change

map showing water-related conflicts over thousands of years

4,000 years of conflict over water: a timeline

By Morgan Shimabuku | Analysis, Climate Change