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The Doomsday Clock has remained at 90 seconds to midnight for a second year in a row, according to experts who predict the likelihood of a global catastrophe.

It would be great for people to just have open-minded conversations with others about the climate crisis and what it means for them as a starting point. "But people’s defenses do go up if you start facting them over the head and trying to tell them what to do," says the author of Generation Dread. "I look at this more as a project to support those in need than it is to kind of convert those who are in other places."

A new nuclear arms race, the Ukraine war and climate change were all factors considered, say scientists.

A plethora of threats face us globally, causing the clock's tenuous reading in 2024. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which was founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J.

We are one step closer to human annihilation as the Doomsday Clock moves the closest it has ever been to midnight.

But the atomic experts still spotted "ominous trends" around the world.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled its latest reading of the Doomsday clock on Tuesday morning, signaling how close humanity is to global catastrophe.

The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years is no ordinary clock — it attempts to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was again set at 90 seconds to midnight — the closest to the hour it has ever been.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the Doomsday Clock this year was set to 90 seconds to midnight -- for the second year in a row.

Nuclear war, the climate crisis, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence and more all pose potentially existential threats to life on Earth, scientists warn