Browsing: Environment

Why mRNA Vaccines Are So Revolutionary—And What’s at Stake If We Lose ThemSpeed and flexibility have made mRNA a blockbuster technologyBy Stephanie Pappas edited by Jeanna…

Hundreds of firefighters are battling to stop the spread of a fast-moving wildfire in southern France after one woman died and nine people were injured as…

Israeli forces have attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds, according to the group managing…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.The White House recently proposed slashing NASA’s science budget nearly in half and reducing the space agency’s…

I tried to write a letter recently but my hand didn’t quite cooperate: the result was a maniacal scrawl. I rarely put literal pen to paper…

Mysterious Illness Decimating Sea Stars Finally IdentifiedA devastating bacterium has decimated populations of sunflower sea stars, predators that play a crucial role in their environmentBy Andrea…

Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the summit of…

NASA’s Plan for a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon Could Be a Lunar Land GrabSpurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing…

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered its biggest annual drop in live coral in two out of three areas monitored by scientists since 1986, a new…

For centuries, codfish in the Baltic Sea, which lies between Sweden and Eastern Europe, have been a regional dietary staple. Fishers once hauled in nets filled…