Nuclear power has been gaining more interest and attention at global climate summits, as a key weapon in the fight against climate change. But climate advocates say it's still suffering from a terrible reputation.

Nuclear power is expected to hit record levels in 2025. Calling it "clean energy," advocates are pushing for the controversial power source to play a greater role in global plans to tackle climate change.Nuclear power releases no carbon emissions during ...

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These shifts have been great for existing nuclear plants. We’re seeing efforts to boost their power output, extend the lifetime of old reactors, and even reopen facilities that have shut down. That’s good news for climate action, because nuclear power plants produce consistent electricity with very low greenhouse-gas emissions.

The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic measure of how close the world is to catastrophe, was moved to just 89 seconds to midnight today.

Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world.

For 78 years now, scientists from around the world have been gauging exactly how close human civilization is to disaster. They represented this using a clock with the minute hand posed at a number of minutes from midnight. The closer the clock is to midnight, the more precarious the situation for society.

Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to 200—was that Camp Century was a cover for a secret Cold War Army project. Unknown even to Greenland’s Danish government,

It's a bit too soon to say for sure how this decade will remembered. But, unless things drastically change, it's not likely to be fondly. How about the Snoring Twenties? The Boring Twenties?

The leader of the Green Party on Somerset Council has attacked the prime minister following his recent comments on Hinkley Point C.

Global nuclear energy production is set to reach a record high in 2025, driven by increased investment and growing demand. -- The resurgence of nuclear power is driven by factors such as the need for reliable,