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Ukraine conflict

a man crosses a destroyed bridge holding water bottles

Water as weapon, and casualty, in Russia’s war on Ukraine

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Ukrainian tanks on a military exercise

Russia says “Nyet” to UN calls for DMZ around Ukrainian nuclear plant

By Jon Henley, Samantha Lock | Nuclear Weapons

Heavy equipment in a quarry.

The war in Ukraine is hurting the transition to low-carbon technologies

By Paul Hockenos | Climate Change

М17, Kherson oblast, Ukraine, Kalanchats'kyi district

Damage to Ukraine’s renewable energy sector could surpass $1 billion

By Tom Johansmeyer | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

WWII letter contains parallels with Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilians

By Robert K. Elder | Analysis

Russian troops undergo training

Russia’s non-proliferation disinformation campaign

By Abigail Stowe-Thurston | Chemical Weapons

army soliders with a helicopter in the background

US Army plan to combat climate change lacks the fighting spirit

By Neta C. Crawford | Analysis, Climate Change

Grappling with environmental risks in the fog of war

By Kristina Hook, Richard “Drew” Marcantonio | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk

A close call at Ukraine reactor: On luck and nuclear disasters

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Risk, Opinion, Personal Essay

photo of Vladimir Putin from official Twitter page of Kremlin

Inside Putin’s head: Paranoid? Calculating? Obsessed by the conspiracy theories of a rehabilitated Russian fascist?

By Charles B. Strozier, David M. Terman | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

large crowd of people on a road

Russian military surrounds Europe’s largest nuclear power plant as Ukrainians block access roads

By Jessica McKenzie | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrency will not save Putin from sanctions

By Aaron Arnold, Allison Owen | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies