Earth's Climate Changes in Tune with Eccentric Orbital Rhythms
Ocean sediment reveals the pattern behind the rise and fall of ice ages and the shape of Earth's orbit. By David Biello
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Singing New Songs: Urban Birds Vocalize Differently; Insurance Industry Worries About Warming
In this episode, Leiden University bird song expert Hans Slabbekorrn notes the changes in bird vocalizations when they move from the forest to the city. And we wrap up our series on Scientific American magazine's "SA 50" citations with Ivo Menzinger, managing director of sustainability and emerging risk management for the reinsurance company Swiss Re...
When It Warms, It Pours: Climate Change Produces Fewer but More Extreme Monsoon Rains
Climate change appears to be increasing the risk of monsoon flooding on the Indian subcontinent.
Temperate Zone Forest Fires Can Cool the Climate
Fires may boost the reflectivity of the ground, thereby counteracting the warming from the fire's release of greenhouse gases.
The SA50: The people and organizations making technology a constructive force.
Business, policy and science leaders are named to the SA50 list featured in the December issue of Scientific American and at our website, www.sciam.com.
Hide and Seen: Gestures and Facial Expressions Help Communication; Government Attempts to Keep Science Information Hidden
In this episode, Scientific American Mind executive editor Mariette Dichristina talks about a special section of the magazine devoted to the roles of gestures and facial expressions in communications...
Yesterday's Animals, Tomorrow's Hot Time
Three stories from the Geological Society of America's annual meeting: a 5600-year-old corral; 75-million-year-old stomach worms; health impacts of global warming.
Tiny Organisms Provide Power To Move Oceans
Phytoplankton store as much energy as humans produce in a year. As food, that energy powers the swimmers who churn the oceans and ultimately help regulate the world's climate.
Nuclear Energy's Future, the Mouse-Cheese Relationship
In this episode, MIT physicist Ernest Moniz discusses the future of nuclear energy and the article he co-authored in the September issue of Scientific American called The Nuclear Option...
Scientific American Magazine single topic issue--Energy's Future: Beyond Carbon; and Well-Read Doctors.
In this episode, Scientific American editor-in-chief John Rennie talks about the September, single-topic issue of the magazine, the focus of which is Energy's Future: Beyond Carbon. He also explains the Emmy Award in his home...
A Climate Repair Manual
Global warming is a reality. Innovation in energy technology and policy are sorely needed if we are to cope
The Mountain/Climate Relation and Patient Safety
In this episode, geologist Kip Hodges discusses how climate and mountain evolution influence each other in the Himalayas, the subject of his article in the August issue of Scientific American...
Weather Gets Personal
New devices can make forecasts for your own backyard
Climate and the Evolution of Mountains
New studies of the Himalaya and the Tibetan Plateau suggest a deep relation between climate and tectonics
