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The Trump administration announced on Friday it would roll back air regulations for power plants limiting mercury and hazardous air toxics at an event in Kentucky,…

February 20, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmTrump administration slashes mercury regulations from coal plantsMercury pollution from coal plants has been tied to serious…

A man in Catania, Sicily, trained his dog to dump rubbish bags by the roadside in an attempt to outsmart anti-fly-tipping cameras, municipal police have said.…

February 20, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmListen to the oldest known recording of a whaleResearchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting…

Planetary-scale solar geoengineering interventions involve the deliberate injection of either natural or artificial particulates into the stratosphere – stratospheric aerosol injection, or SAI – with a…

Hearings began Thursday in the first major climate suit of a multinational oil company in France. Judges will decide if oil giant TotalEnergies must curb its…

February 19, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmCats’ cancer genes show striking similarity to humans’Researchers sequenced the genomes of tumors from almost 500 domestic…

As a child, Marcel Mazur had to hold his breath in parts of Kraków thick with “so much smoke you could see and smell it”. Now,…

February 19, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm‘Mind-blowing’ baby chick study challenges a theory of how humans evolved languageNewborn chicks connect sounds with shapes…

A major Australian super fund has been accused of greenwashing after it continued to badge an investment option as “sustainable” despite quietly halving its environmental criteria.UniSuper,…