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Private eye: The original logo of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Want protection from climate chaos? Call the Pinkertons

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

Malware. Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Is cyberwarfare war? Insurers balk at paying for some cyberattacks

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

The Trump campaign plans to brag about how it reduced greenhouse gas emissions in 2017. But 2018, and the overall trend, don’t look so good.

A short-lived White House climate “victory”

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

for sale sign flooded

“Climate change is this generation’s Vietnam”

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

Credit: OCEANIX/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Could floating cities be the answer to rising sea levels?

By Matt Field | Climate Change, What We’re Reading

Why did Defense end its contract with the legendary Jason group?

By John Mecklin | Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Chinese President Xi Jinping. Credit: www.kremlin.ru. via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. Cropped.

Authoritarianism? There’s an app for that

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Petra Nova is the world’s largest carbon capture project at a coal-fired power plant. With funding from a $190 million Energy Department grant, NRG Energy and JX Nippon retrofitted one of the Texas plant’s boilers to capture one-third of its carbon dioxide emissions before they enter the atmosphere. The captured carbon dioxide is injected into oil reservoirs to boost production. Credit: NRG Energy

A White House strategy for fixing the climate?

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

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by RodCastler. CC BY-SA 3.0

Hackers keep North Korea’s weapons program running

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, What We’re Reading

Flowers outside a mosque in New Zealand to commemorate the victims of an attack on two mosques that killed 50 people. Credit: Mike Dickison via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. (Edited)

Should tech executives do hard time for violent content posted to their platforms?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Statute of Libery and flag, with Russian text

Putin’s renewal of Russian power: Real, or a “ghost empire”?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

A #nukefest manifesto. Or critique, at least.

By | Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading