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olivine in rock

Golden hydrogen—or fool’s gold?

By Eric McFarland | Climate Change

What in the world is weather whiplash?

By Jennifer A. Francis | Climate Change

2024 Doomsday Clock announcement

PRESS RELEASE: Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight

By Sarah Starkey | Doomsday Clock, What’s New at the Bulletin

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