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permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky on Alaska's North Slope

(Trying to) keep it cool: Vladimir Romanovsky on permafrost fieldwork

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

The shrinking of the Greenland Ice Sheet can’t be stopped—but it can and must be slowed

By Twila Moon | Climate Change, Special Topics

‘Notoriously difficult to investigate and even more difficult to predict’: Thomas Stocker on tipping points

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

a house surrounded by water

‘The riskometer has been going up all the time’: Tim Lenton on tipping points

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

Iceberg in Antarctica

Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray

By Robert Kopp, Elisabeth Gilmore, Rachael Shwom | Climate Change, Special Topics

Introduction: (Almost) everything you wanted to know about tipping points, but were too afraid to ask

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Special Topics

close-up of one portion of AMOC

Is the AMOC headed for a tipping point? Interview with Henk Dijkstra

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Students test a model wind turbine they constructed.

Climate change education can survive four more years of climate change denial

By Glenn Branch | Climate Change

Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board and Juan Manuel Santos, chair of The Elders and former president of Colombia, announce the setting of the Doomsday Clock on January 28, 2025 at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. It is now 89 seconds to midnight. Left to right: Daniel Holz, Herb Lin, Juan Manuel Santos, Robert Socolow, and Suzet McKinney. (Photo by Jamie Christiani/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock set at 89 seconds to midnight, closest ever to human extinction

By Adam Dombovari | Doomsday Clock, What’s New at the Bulletin

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