The Environment

Exploring ice cores to foresee the effects of climate change

Explaining how climate change affects ecological diversity and human health

Scientific American used expert recommendations and data analysis to identify 28 exceptional early-career researchers

Making artificial-intelligence tools to predict what climate change will mean for extreme weather

The well-known seismologist on the need for the U.S. to recalibrate its social commitment to science

The science historian talks about scientific integrity and public opinion

The famed climatologist talks about how science in the U.S. is under attack

The well-regarded meteorologist shares advice for young scientists to become as good at communication as they are at discovery

What does it take for an insect or worm to live full-time on a glacier?

Melting permafrost is releasing carbon into the atmosphere, but scientists may have underestimated just how bad the situation may be, a new analysis finds

Salt, with its ability to seal liquid in, is uniquely suited to storing the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks