The Environment

It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track microplastics in drinking water—but experts say doing so will be difficult

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once believed

A Wisconsin-sized region of frozen soil is thawing fast, releasing three trillion more gallons of water per year than it did just four decades ago

On their voyages to the moon, NASA’s astronauts are finally getting some creature comforts of terrestrial toilets—such as having a door and being able to pee and poop simultaneously

A record warm winter meant that snow levels across the western U.S. were already low, but an incredible March heat wave has made things even worse

Fresh-water-saturated sediment or bedrock may extend as deep as three or four kilometers below the Great Salt Lake’s basin, a new study suggests

Pesticides on your produce can be easily removed with common kitchen ingredients

James Cameron tells Scientific American how his latest documentary, Secrets of the Bees, reveals an intimate view of the inside of a beehive

Atmospheric scientist Perry Samson was doing fieldwork when he was unexpectedly caught inside a tornado—making him one of the few such people who have lived to tell the tale

Sperm whales are known to socialize, but scientists were stunned when they saw a group of sperm whales gather as one of them gave birth

The Arctic sea ice maximum this year effectively tied for the lowest ever on record, with major implications for polar ecosystems and global warming