The experts who maintain the ominous Doomsday Clock said Tuesday that humanity is still as close as ever to global catastrophe, which could involve nuclear war, climate change, or maybe even ...

The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, set at 89 seconds to midnight, is displayed during a news conference at the United States Institute of Peace, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 ...

Doomsday Clock Stays at 90 Seconds to Midnight Amid Climate Change, War and A.I. For the second year in a row, the clock is the nearest it has ever been to signaling our total annihilation ...

Climate Crisis 247. The Doomsday Clock And Climate Change: What It Means For Humanity. Posted: January 30, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025. Douglas McIntyre explains the history and ...

Nuclear war and climate change are two huge, complex topics that the Doomsday Clock has to distil into a single graphic. It’s a lot of heavy lifting for a metaphor born in an era when annual ...

The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change, according to the Bulletin of ...

When a new time is set on the clock, people listen, she said. At the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, UK, in 2021, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson cited the Doomsday Clock when talking about ...

It’s the first time the clock has been moved since 2023 when the clock was moved from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds . This is the closest the clock has been to midnight in the Doomsday ...

The Doomsday Clock’s biggest failure is when it comes to climate change, which wasn’t factored into the Bulletin’s doom calculations until 2007. The clock’s initial preoccupation with ...

Even with the Covid-19 pandemic, the growing effects of climate change, and whatever might be brewing in an AI or biotech lab somewhere, humans are far healthier, wealthier, and — at least on a ...

The clock uses the imagery of a countdown to midnight to convey the urgency of threats such as nuclear war, climate change, biological risks, and disruptive technologies.