In 2023, the clock moved to 90 seconds to midnight after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and broke the ...

Eighty years after the founding of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and 55 years after the first Earth Day, humanity faces a growing profusion of existential threats. Most people—including ...

A small group of scientists and policy experts meet behind closed doors in Chicago to decide how close humanity is to ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

The idea that the Maya calendar “reset” in 2012 and took the world with it was always a projection of modern anxiety, not an ...

The commentator Michael Shellenberger got it exactly right. “The EU wants X to give its data to government-selected ...

In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...

Antarctica is breaking apart in two very different directions. While West Antarctica hemorrhages ice into warming seas at an ...

A recent study paints a concerning picture of the potential collapse of the Thwaites Glacier, otherwise known as the Doomsday ...

A widely-referenced 2024 study that predicted massive global economic damages due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday. When the team of economists ...

We’re once again approaching the annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock. Last January, the Science and Security Board of the ...