The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that...
15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there.
A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.
A U.S. push for voluntary payments in high-stakes negotiations over a global fund for climate disasters has raised tensions ahead of the upcoming COP28 climate summit
Skirmishes at the U.K.’s AI Safety Summit expose tensions over how to regulate AI technology
Rich nations haven’t met their promises to provide aid to developing countries to adapt to climate extremes, the U.N. says in a new report
People may learn from and replicate the skewed perspective of an artificial intelligence algorithm, and they carry this bias beyond their interactions with the AI
More than half of Miami-Dade County residents will face pressure to move as rising seas push residents inland to reach higher ground, a new study finds
Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace
The Philippines, India and China have seen the greatest total number of children displaced by disasters—some 23 million—in recent years
Next-generation 6G technology could “enable applications that we may not even imagine today”
About one in five U.S. counties are both socially vulnerable and highly exposed to natural disasters, which could “compound existing inequities,” the Department of the Treasury says in a new report...
A special package explores problems and solutions to the geography of injustice
United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is proposing a $500-billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals to preserve the environment and end poverty and hunger...
Four decades into his activism, Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead.
In the five decades between 1970 and 2021, extreme climate events caused more than two million deaths and led to economic losses of $4.3 trillion, 60 percent of which occurred in developing countries, a U.N...
Since 1970 more than 350 weather stations have experienced at least one six-hour period of a potentially deadly combination of heat and humidity. Scientists expect these episodes will increase as temperatures rise...
U.S. census tracts with high exposure to climate impacts will get extra federal funds to build resilience
Nearly every person on the planet saw high temperatures that were made at least twice as likely by climate change this summer
Seemingly trivial differences in training data can skew the judgments of AI programs—and that’s not the only problem with automated decision-making
