Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists8h
US states aren’t even close to taking full advantage of IRA tax credits for climate action
West Virginia and Louisiana have used less than one percent of potential federal funding, and at the other end of the ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists8h
AI and the A-bomb: What the analogy captures and misses
The nuclear analogy offers some lessons for mitigating the risks of AI, but the differences between the two techs are ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists8h
More tornadoes are hitting the Northeast. The changing climate may be to blame
Even a tiny increase in the number of tornadoes in the Northeast and mid-South could correspond to a much greater potential for damage and loss of life because those regions have higher population ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists7h
Climate Change
In 1978, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published a cover story titled “Is mankind warming the Earth?” The answer then, as now, was an “unqualified ‘yes.’” Between July 2023 and June 2024, the ...