Browsing: Environment

March 18, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmCOVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls showWe have…

A possum surprised Hobart airport staff after wandering into a departures gift shop, where it settled among plush toys on Wednesday. A spokesperson said the animal…

We are in the space age. Rockets launch to space almost every day. Orbital space stations have now housed humans continuously for decades. The sky is…

A severely damaged Russian tanker carrying liquified natural gas that has been adrift in the Mediterranean for two weeks, raising concerns of an ecological disaster, has…

March 18, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThere might be less water on the moon than we’d hopedNew satellite data come up dry as…

About 7% of England’s land – an area roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall – will need to be given over to nature, forests and…

Five years ago, Tanzanian authorities set out to push the Indigenous Maasai off their ancestral lands in the famed Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Despite global outcry over…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.In early March the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter…

Finding out who owns land in England is to become much simpler because a paywall will be lifted from large parts of the Land Registry, the…

March 17, 20265 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmA boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answersA new data release more than…