Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh is the author of End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World. Previously, he was TIME’s International Editor, its energy and environmental correspondent and was the Tokyo bureau chief in 2006 and 2007. He lives in New York.

Recent Articles

Why Your Brain Can’t Process Climate Change

Last week saw the latest in a series of increasingly dire reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This past July was the hottest month on record, punctuated by intense heat waves throughout Europe...

By Bryan Walsh

ICAN Receives Nobel Peace Prize For Nuclear Ban

"They don't have to be that special"

By Bryan Walsh

Does Spirituality Make You Happy?

Scientists may not agree on why, but they are finding some new answers to age-old questions

The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic

On a hyperconnected planet rife with hyperinfectious diseases, experts warn we aren't ready to keep America--and the world--safe from the next pandemic

By Bryan Walsh

The Visible Effects of Climate Change in Iran

So much of the debate over climate change takes place in the realm of language—the dry language of scientists, the passionate language of environmentalists, the obfuscating language of skeptical politicians. But to feel climate change...

By Bryan Walsh

Why America’s Power Grid Is Susceptible to Cyberattacks

The threat of cyberattack calls for a manual backup

By Bryan Walsh

The Right to Speech Vs. the Right to Censor

Milo Yiannopoulos is many things: a onetime editor at the alt-right website Breitbart, a gay and partly Jewish man who regularly disparaged gays and Jews, the self-described "most fabulous supervillain of the Internet" and, in...

By Bryan Walsh

How the Enlightenment Predicted Modern Populism

When people have faith in a new way of life's future, unkept promises can lead to pain and rebellion

By Bryan Walsh

Why Doomsday Is Closer Than You Think

The threats have changed—but the risks are real

By Bryan Walsh

Trump's Presidency Could Mean the End of a Livable Climate

The thousands of diplomats and activists who gathered at the annual U.N. climate summit, held this year in Marrakech, Morocco, on Nov. 7, must have thought the hard work was over. Just days earlier, the...

By Bryan Walsh

How Peace-Finally-Came to Reign Throughout the Western Hemisphere

Church bells rang in the small towns of Colombia at 12:01 a.m. on Aug. 29. The tolling marked the official start of a cease-fire that was years in the making and the end of a...

By Bryan Walsh

Suffering and Squandering Hope in a War-Weary Country

July 9 was the fifth anniversary of the world's youngest country, but the citizens of South Sudan had no cause for celebration. Heavy fighting between the government forces of President Salva Kiir and troops loyal...

By Bryan Walsh

How I Taught Myself to Cook

Dinner kits provide everything you need to cook, other than a sous-chef to berate

By Bryan Walsh

How I Taught Myself to Cook--With a Kit

Companies like Plated, Hello Fresh and Blue Apron measure, box and ship out every ingredient

By Bryan Walsh

Zika's Toll

A virus with links to birth defects sends fear through the Americas

By Bryan Walsh / Recife, Brazil and Alexandra Sifferlin / Recife, Brazil

Why the Zika Outbreak Marks a New Normal for Infectious Disease

It's easy to think dangerous mosquito-borne diseases--the kind that can cause birth defects, severe illness or even death--are something only poor, tropical countries need to fear. Yet malaria, brought to the U.S. by European colonists...

By Bryan Walsh

Behind The Most Heartbreaking Photo of 2015

The photographer talks about the day she took the image and its impact on the world

By Bryan Walsh and TIME Photo

The Damage of China’s One-Child Policy May Already Be Done

The country faces a major aging crisis

By Bryan Walsh

10 Questions With Orhan Pamuk

The Nobel laureate discusses his new novel, his love for his hometown of Istanbul and Turkey’s response to a devastating terrorist attack

By Bryan Walsh

How to Prevent the Next Hurricane Katrina

Billions have been spent. It’s not enough.

By Bryan Walsh
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