Greenhouse-gas emissions get all the attention, but their effect is manageable and unfolds over decades.

As global catastrophic risks (GCRs) such as nuclear winters, extreme pandemics, or solar storms threaten to disrupt trade and food supply systems, new strategies are needed to ensure humanity’s ...

Since the creation of the atom bomb, the threat of nuclear war has loomed. Endless films and books have dealt with the nuclear apocalypse ... NUCLEAR WINTER WOULD TRIGGER A GLOBAL FAMINE, BUT ...

From climate catastrophe to nuclear winter, just how likely is it that ... Enrol to vote. If the apocalypse is coming and there's no way out, there may be one last way you can escape certain ...

Aspen and Denver during a nuclear winter that makes most blizzards look tame by comparison. The choice of setting was easy for the video game’s art director. “We’d done ‘brown and hot ...

Robock and a few colleagues have, for years, been running the numbers on what scientists in the 1980s called “nuclear winter,” the idea that multiple nuclear detonations would send enough dust ...

The study, published earlier this month by Earth's Future, found that seaweed will likely survive nuclear winter and could make a good food source "due to its ability to grow quickly in a range of ...

Now, researchers say Australia and New Zealand are among five island nations most likely to survive an apocalyptic nuclear winter ... would die in a nuclear apocalypse, millions more would ...

The study involved looking at abrupt sunlight-reducing situations. Scientists have recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand are best placed to survive a nuclear apocalypse and help reboot ...