The Doomsday Clock, a symbol of global danger, remains the closest it has ever been to midnight. Scientists warn climate change and nuclear threats keep humanity on high alert.

Eighty years after the first atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, experts and survivors warn that the risk of a new ...

Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in ...

Civilization’s peak masks a looming collapse as climate change, war and a declining young population threaten our future ...

With the dropping of two atom bombs, 80 years ago this month, humanity reached a tipping point in Hiroshima and Nagaski.

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again than it has ...

As he prepares to adapt the new book Ghosts of Hiroshima, the director talks about the lessons of America's use of the atomic bomb in World War II, and how the horrors of the past connect to our futur ...

There are many, many, many ways the world could end, from nuclear explosions to meteors and global pandemics. But if and when Armageddon comes, there are three men you could probably blame, an expert ...

He added: ‘We can’t put a date on Doomsday, but by looking at the 5,000 years of ... ‘oligarchy’ is working against our interests by ignoring threats like climate change and nuclear weapons, Dr Kemp ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the Doomsday Clock are the closest they’ve ever been to midnight.

Only about one-fourth of Iceland’s 39,769 square miles is habitable by humans, mostly along the southern shore. Geologically, ...

The Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight as analysts debate nuclear deterrence effectiveness amid rising tensions with Russia over Ukraine and China's arsenal expansion.