NASA and the European Space Agency plan to bring samples back from Mars. Could they harbor a type of life that scientists ...

Negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Saturday.

Risks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.

While Big Car kills many of us quickly, in deadly collisions, it is killing many more of us slowly, by polluting the ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may soon loosen radiation exposure safety standards at nuclear plants and operations.

Our current political climate is just as unusual and concerning as the current state of our planetary climate.

Lesley M. M. Blume is a journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author, most recently of Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World.

The new nuclear age differs from previous eras in an important way: The current era is shaped by information abundance. But that abundance comes with a paradox: With more data there is also an ...

After more than a decade, global climate negotiations are returning to Latin America. Starting November 10, the Amazonian city of Belém do Pará will become the epicenter of COP30, the United Nations’ ...

Henry Skinner is CEO of the AMR Action Fund, a mission-driven fund financing the development of antimicrobials, and is a leading voice for reforms to address the global AMR crisis. He earned a PhD in ...

Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, ...

Jeff Terry is a professor of physics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where his main research focus is on energy systems. His group works to develop new ways of dealing with radioactive waste; ...