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.

In this view from an airplane icebergs float in Disko Bay on August 4, 2019 near Ilulissat, Greenland.

Why Your Brain Can’t Process Climate Change

Last week saw the latest in a series of increasingly dire reports from the ...

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...

'We Can Take Them Apart.' ICAN Chief Beatrice Fihn Accepts Nobel Peace Prize for Group's Work to Ban Nuclear Weapons

"They don't have to be that special"

Does Spirituality Make You Happy?

Scientists may not agree on why, but they are finding some new answers to a...

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

John Hackett and Charles Chiu handle Zika samples at the University of California, San Francisco-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center Cody Pickens for TIME

The World Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic

On a hyperconnected planet rife with hyperinfectious diseases, experts warn...

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

A woman walks on a pier that once overlooked Lake Urmia's deep waters, July 2016, northwestern Iran. Since 1996, drought has contributed to the decline of the lake which now covers only about 10 percent of the area it once did, July 2016.

The Visible Effects of Climate Change in Iran

So much of the debate over climate change takes place in the realm of langu...

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...

A power station in Moapa, Nev. Cyberattacks on the U.S. grid have become more frequent.

Why America’s Power Grid Is Susceptible to Cyberattacks

The threat of cyberattack calls for a manual backup

Yiannopoulos’ stint as a free-speaking provocateur ended when an indisputably wrong clip resurfaced.

The Right to Speech Vs. the Right to Censor

Milo Yiannopoulos is many things: a onetime editor at the alt-right website...

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...