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On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded, precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, on the twenty fifth anniversary of the explosion, it is worth revisiting this horrific episode and to reflect on the lessons we still have not learned.

Could Japan's nuclear disaster happen here? General Electric, the company that designed the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, also designed 23 reactors in the US to similar specifications.

This puzzle originally appeared in the February 14, 1976, issue.

Choosing to ignore climate change is the highest-stake gamble we are currently in.

Klein reports from the Gulf of Mexico on how the very real effects of BP's Deepwater Horizon oilspill are still being felt.

Don't tune in; it's not important.

Is BP unique in its ability to create catastrophe? On this week's episode of The Breakdown, Chris Hayes asks Greenpeace's Kert Davies whether the entire practice of offshore oil drilling is inherently dangerous, regardless of which company runs the rig.

Spike Lee follows up his 2006 masterpiece on post-Hurricane Katrina destruction.

Can we calculate the true cost of our dependence on oil?

Human rights emerged not in the 1940s but the 1970s, and on the ruins of prior dreams.