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Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti and associate editor Andrea Thompson talk about this election and the future of U.S. energy research and policy.

Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti talks about how this election will affect environmental science and policy.

Scientific American’s associate editor for sustainability Andrea Thompson talks about how climate science and policy will be affected by this election.

Countries are debating proposed marine reserves that could help protect this key source of food for other species

The mass-extinction asteroid happened to strike an area where the rock contained a lot of organic matter and sent soot into the stratosphere, where it could block sunlight for years.

Planners returned water to the dry bed of Arizona’s Santa Cruz River in 2019, and various species began showing up on the same day.

Ancient sediments show rapid warming and rising seas caused massive thaws that unleashed carbon into the atmosphere

Blue whales off California’s coast sing at night—until it’s time to start migrating, and they switch to daytime song.

The disappearance of their predators in a disturbed ecosystem has turned Atlantic forest sloths from night creatures to day adventurers.

If greenhouse gas emissions do not decline, melt rates could quadruple and further add to sea level rise

One third of volcanoes may have molten reserves kilometers away

Researchers seeking evidence for cancer in dinosaurs found it in a collection of bones at a paleontology museum in Alberta.