Earth is moving closer to destruction, a science-oriented advocacy group said Tuesday as it advanced its famous “Doomsday Clock” to 89 seconds till midnight, the closest it has ever been.

The symbolic clock is set at 89 seconds to midnight, with nuclear threats, AI misuses and climate change being the key factors.

Humanity is closer to species-threatening disaster than ever before, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who today moved the hand of the "Doomsday Clock" to 89 seconds to midnight. That's the closest the clock has ever been to catastrophe.