energy

solar panels and coal-fired chimneys

Where do Americans get most of their electricity from? (Hint: It’s not coal.)

By Tik Root | Analysis

ghost town in Fukushima

Counting the dead at Fukushima

By Maxime Polleri | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

observers watching atomic bomb test, 1950s

Introduction: Nuclear Risk

By John Mecklin | Magazine, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

smokestacks in Russia

The climate consequences of the US-Russia global realignment

By Robert Orttung, Debra Javeline, Graeme Robertson, Richard Arnold, Andrew Barnes, Edward Holland, Mikhail Troitskiy, Judyth Twigg, Susanne Wengle | Analysis, Climate Change, Special Topics

A neural network comes out of the top of an ivory tower, above a crowd of people's heads. Some of them are reaching up to try and take some control and pull the net down to them. Watercolour illustration.

How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy

By Suresh Venkatasubramanian | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Expert Analysis, The AI Power Trip

windmills and sunset sky

How to leverage positive tipping points for climate action

By Femke Nijsse, Steve Smith, Tim Lenton | Climate Change

Memo to Trump: Five reasons to act on climate

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change

implosion at National Ignition Facility lab test

The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs

By Arjun Makhijani | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

sun in extreme closeup

Introduction—Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Energy

“Fusion is not a typical bet”: Interview with Silicon Valley investor Mark Coopersmith

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Fusion: The Uncertain Certainty

By Richard F. Post | Nuclear Energy

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