This video examines how close the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War and what might have happened if a single ...

Scientists in Pennsylvania reveal exactly what a nuclear winter would look like – with starvation for billions of people up to eight years after a global war. The experts say a nuclear winter – a ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

It would be a-crop-alyptic. Amid rising tensions around the world, Penn State University scientists have revealed what the fallout would be from a nuclear war — with an unfathomable famine, mass ...

The consequences of nuclear catastrophe extend far beyond the initial explosion—it could dismantle global food security for decades to come, a new study suggests. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the ...

The most harrowing part of a nuclear war may not be the bombs and the radiation but what comes afterward, a new study has revealed. The study from Penn State University scientists said that even a ...

This comparison global map illustration shows one potential scenario outcome and how corn crops would be negatively affected by cold temperatures and shorter growing seasons resulting from soot ...

Faced with pollution conditions that experts say is like a "nuclear winter", people in Beijing are trying everything to protect themselves from the choking smog and fumes. The country's toxic air ...