Jessica McKenzie

2 weeks ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Yale e360. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. China has announced plans to build the world’s largest hydroelectric project at a remote river gorge in eastern Tibet, an ecological treasure trove close to a disputed border with India. Indian politicians have reacted angrily, saying it gives China the ability to release destructive “water bombs” across the border in any future conflict.

2 weeks ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

In the early 1990s, a University of Michigan graduate student named Jeff Masters started working on an internet weather project to share real-time weather information and satellite imagery, something most people take for granted today but was at the time revolutionary.

3 weeks ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

For more than half a century, US intelligence agencies and the armed forces have analyzed threats to national security from a range of environmental angles, including dependence on fossil fuels, competition for scarce water resources and strategic minerals, and especially human-caused climate change. These reports have been produced under presidential administrations across the political spectrum.

1 month ago | peoplesworld.org | Jessica McKenzie

The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community made no mention of climate change as a security threat for the first time in 11 years, according to Sen. Angus King. Much of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last Tuesday was taken up by questions about the use of a private, encrypted messaging app by leaders of the U.S. intelligence community to discuss the details of an upcoming attack on Yemen.

1 month ago | thebulletin.org | Jessica McKenzie

Since President Trump was inaugurated in January, he has unleashed a barrage of attacks on federal institutions, employees, laws, and regulations. Agencies that deal with climate, energy, and environmental policy have been on the receiving end of many of these attacks, more than a few of which are of dubious legality and go far beyond anything Trump attempted in his first term.