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 ...

If climate change means runaway risk, at least in our lifetimes, they will eventually run out of time before tripping into “midnight.” There is an almost comic effect of counting doomsday by ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Daniel Holz from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists discusses why the hands of the ...

Doomsday Glacier, Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica, climate change, sea level rise, global warming, glacier collapse, ...

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 ...

Created in 1947, the clock initially served as a warning about the threat of nuclear weapons, but climate change has started to mess with the hands of time in recent years.

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 ...

The Doomsday Clock stands in a broadcast studio before a virtual news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023.

Another key change occurred in 2007 when the Doomsday Clock started factoring in the risk of climate change. Since then it has also started considering new disruptive technologies, including ...

WASHINGTON (TND) — The "Doomsday Clock," the metaphorical measure by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of how close human kind is close to self-annihilation, remained set at 90 seconds to ...