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What We’re Reading

Foreign Affairs magazine cover

Does “Foreign Affairs” matter?

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

climate change weekend update saturday night live Michael che

Live from New York, it’s the end of the world!

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Lesley Stahl interviewed President Donald Trump in October 2018. Credit: CBS News

Trump’s evolving (but still totally wrong) take on global warming

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Jennifer Exelby leads a team of chemical-agent handlers at the US Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center. Photo Credit: US Army

A wearable to detect chemical weapons

By Elisabeth Eaves | Biosecurity, Chemical Weapons, What We’re Reading

The scene in Panama City, Florida.

Michael devastates Florida Panhandle, climate change an unavoidable subject

By | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

A deafening climate alarm, if anyone’s listening

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

wind turbines, livestock, energy

The wrong spin on wind power

By Thomas Gaulkin | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

An aphid, on a leaf.

Insect Allies to the rescue?

By John Mecklin | Biosecurity, Disruptive Technologies, Synthetic biology, What We’re Reading

Climate change could bring more “mosquito-pocalypses”

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

The future of nuclear energy depends on China

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Scientists march at a pro-science rally

Trump’s EPA to axe Office of the Science Adviser

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Science Denial, What We’re Reading

Donald trump united nations general assembly speech

No room for climate in Trump’s patriotism

By | Climate Change, Science Denial, What We’re Reading