EvolutionAugust 30, 2012
Soil May Help Pathogens Make Us Sick
Stories by David Biello
David Biello is a contributing editor at Scientific American.
August 29, 2012
Using Fertilizer Wisely Could Help Feed 9 Billion People
Farmers in the U.S. and China should use less fertilizer, freeing it up for application where such nutrients can do the most good
EnvironmentAugust 28, 2012
Hurricane Isaac Strengthens and Takes Aim at New Orleans
EnvironmentAugust 27, 2012
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches New Low
EnvironmentAugust 22, 2012
Oil Companies May Have Been Helping Combat Climate Change (a Little)
EnvironmentAugust 15, 2012
Has the Time Come to Try Geoengineering?
EnvironmentAugust 13, 2012
Freshwater Layers in Seas Found to Speed Up Hurricanes
EnvironmentAugust 9, 2012
Recycling Reality: Humans Set to Trash Most Elements on the Periodic Table
EnvironmentAugust 9, 2012
Farmers Deplete Fossil Water in World's Breadbaskets
EnvironmentAugust 3, 2012
Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing Energy Use of the Internet?
Computer design and server farm location could dramatically reduce the energy required to run Facebook and the rest of the Internet, reducing greenhouse gases, too
EnvironmentAugust 2, 2012
Greenland Meltdown Driven by Collapse of Glaciers at Ocean Outlets [Slide Show]
The interactions between the island's glaciers and the surrounding seas may be driving ice loss, according to aerial photographs
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2012
Solar Power Helped Keep the Lights On in India
TechnologyAugust 1, 2012
A New Car Battery May Help Electric Vehicles Reach a Mass Market
A new car battery offers greater flexibility, more power and, potentially, lower overall costs
EnvironmentAugust 1, 2012
World's Top 10 Most Polluted Places
Where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects
EnvironmentJuly 27, 2012
Deny This: Contested Himalayan Glaciers Really Are Melting, and Doing So at a Rapid Pace-Kind of Like Climate Change
EnvironmentJuly 26, 2012
Tropical Parks Fail to Protect Animals and Plants [Slide Show]
A new survey shows that even protected areas are failing to stem the tide of plant and animal extinctions
EvolutionJuly 23, 2012
How Old Is the Endangered Polar Bear?
A new genetic analysis suggests the polar bear may have survived past climate changes
EnvironmentJuly 18, 2012
Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink
Dumping iron into the ocean stimulates blooms of diatoms that pull down carbon dioxide in the atmosphere--but only under the right conditions
Mind & BrainJuly 1, 2012
A Common Pesticide May Be Bad for Bugs and Brains
A common pesticide may interfere with a child's brain development
EnvironmentJuly 1, 2012
Ridding the World of the
Experts say we should bury leftover plutonium
EvolutionJune 28, 2012
White Rot Fungi Slowed Coal Formation
The evolution of the ability to break down a plant's protective lignin largely stopped the geologic burial of carbon that formed present-day coal deposits—and may provide secrets to making biofuels from inedible parts of plants
EnvironmentJune 22, 2012
Fracking's Biggest Problem May Be What to Do with Wastewater
EnvironmentJune 20, 2012
Government Recommendation for Early Summer Heat Wave: Water, Rest, Shade
EnvironmentJune 15, 2012
GMO Bonus: Genetically Engineered Cotton Benefits Farmers, Predatory Insects