Browsing: Environment

In Europe, the diversity of plants was greatest in the years before the Black Death, at a time when small farms and pastures existed alongside grasslands…

March 13, 20264 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHoppers’ beaver expert shares the wild facts of these dam buildersHow do scientists actually study beavers? How…

James BevanSir Bevan, a former Foreign Office mandarin, was chief executive of the Environment Agency from 2015 until March 2023. He has been criticised from inside…

March 13, 20263 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmAI-designed experiments run by robots hint at a new approach to biologyResearchers at OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks…

Ed Miliband has unveiled plans to cut regulations, costs and bureaucracy by the end of next year to speed up the development of nuclear power generation.The…

March 12, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmInterstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is exceptionally alcoholicThis interstellar visitor is “bursting with methanol,” according to one scientistBy Jackie…

These are burning, smoking lies. As oil and gas prices soar, thanks to the US and Israel’s attack on Iran, the UK’s opponents of climate policy…

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page.Grab something circular, like a…

March 12, 2026 Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmRyan Gosling says Project Hail Mary is ‘a reminder of what we’re capable of’Ryan Gosling plays a science teacher…

Britain is once again paying the price of an energy system that is more effective at extracting profits than delivering security. Illegal war and geopolitical disruption…