California is taking the initiative and moving forward with plans to curb emissions of greenhouse gases, even as prospects for national and even international efforts fade
The great recovery from almost-extinction of the Mauritius kestrel is regarded as one of the most spectacular raptor conservation programs in the world.
Can the tiger be saved from extinction? That's the goal of the International Forum on Tiger Conservation, a gathering of government leaders and conservationists in St.
What impact did the Great Recession have on climate change? David Biello reports
A study proposes that fear-based messaging about an issue like global warming may encourage the audience to dismiss it. Christie Nicholson reports
After flourishing for thousands of years in the harshest environment on Earth, the Adelies in one part of Antarctica have encountered an obstacle they seem unable to overcome--us
Researchers have found a gene that promotes faster-growing and larger roots, which could lead to plants with a robuster ability to sequester excess atmospheric carbon
Ten thoughts, trends and technologies that have the power to transform our lives
Britain's beloved hedgehogs are in crisis. Some 50,000 hedgehogs die every year under the wheels of cars and trucks throughout the U.K. That high death rate has had a mighty toll on the cute little creatures: There are now 300,000 fewer hedgehogs in Britain than there were a decade ago...
We are as close to the salmon cages as we can get, telephoto lenses out, video rolling. From our vantage point, fisherman Reid Brown's 45-foot boat the Rebecca and Shelley, we don't see any salmon but the seabirds clamoring around the raised salmon cages are excited about something here in Passamaquoddy Bay on the Bay of Fundy...
Scientific American presents a supplemental selection of outstanding images entered in the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest by the great masters of the microscope
Scientific American presents a supplemental selection of outstanding images entered in the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Contest by the great masters of the microscope
Researchers may have re-created an elusive black hole phenomenon in the lab
Antipodean great whites took a wrong turn on the way to South Africa.
An annotated list of links to further reading about dinosaur soft tissues
For the past year or so, I've been working on a documentary project with Detroit Public Television called "Beyond the Light Switch." It's taken me from the ARPA-e conference in Washington, D.C., to the frack fields of North Texas...
Scientists and conservationists from around Europe will gather this week at a conference to discuss how to save the U.K.'s white-clawed crayfish ( Austropotamobius pallipes ) from the fungal plague that is rapidly wiping them out.As I wrote last year, around 95 percent of British crayfish have been killed in the past two decades, victims of imported American signal crayfish ( Pacifastacus leniusculus ), which were introduced into the U.K...
A multi-agency effort to nail down the social cost of carbon emissions ignores wrenching climate impacts such as ocean acidification and makes efforts to curb emissions seem disproportionately expensive, economists say...
NASA and astronauts face the dirty reality of slipping the surly bonds of Earth
BOULDER—Thin clouds of dust blow off the west coast of Africa toward the Caribbean; wisps of black carbon emissions roil over the U.S. These big-picture global chemical equations can often get lost deep in complex climate datasets...
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