climate change

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

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