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Introduction: What you can do to turn back the hands of the Doomsday Clock

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

How my Gen Z students learned to start worrying and dismantle the Bomb

By Frida Berrigan | Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

Climate change fueled a rise in rare disease outbreaks last year

By Zoya Teirstein | Biosecurity, Climate Change

The best multimedia stories of 2023

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

Italian utility in hot water for draining a picturesque lake to send water to Rome

By Gabriele Di Donfrancesco | Climate Change

A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic threats

By Rumtin Sepasspour | Disruptive Technologies

artist's rendition of guts of electric vehicles and hybrids

Charging ahead: Steven Chu, Nobel Prize-winner and former Energy Secretary, on today’s battery research—and more

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

dead trees in desert

“Like writing the biography of a ghost”—Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

leaves turning color

Introduction: Climate change—Where are we now?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Anasazi cliff ruins

Book excerpt—Catastrophic climate change: Lessons from the dinosaurs

By Michael E. Mann | Climate Change

Where climate journalism is now: Interview with Emily Atkin, the fire behind the Heated climate newsletter

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change

Climate anxiety is not a mental health problem. But we should still treat it as one.

By Anne van Valkengoed | Climate Change