TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Eagle vs. cormorant: What to do when one rare species starts eating another? Bald eagle vs. great cormorant. It sounds like the title of a bad SciFi Channel movie, but it's actually a serious situation that has Maine conservation officials in a quandary. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Rain Zone Moving North [The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]If you’ve spoken to anyone in New York City--where Scientific American’s offices are--then you’ve heard about the rain, every day since mid-June. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Are Germ-Killing Soaps Affecting Dolphin Development? Dolphins are swimming in waters tainted with germ-killing soaps, but they aren't winding up squeaky clean. [More] rss.sciam.com |
With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces Flood of Wastewater Workers at a steel mill and a power plant were the first to notice something strange about the Monongahela River last summer. The water that U.S. Steel and Allegheny Energy used to power their plants contained so much salty sediment that it was corroding their machinery. Nearby residents saw something odd, too. Dishwashers were malfunctioning, and plates were coming out with spots that couldn’t easily be rinsed off. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Subcontinental Smut: Is Soot the Culprit Behind Melting Himalayan Glaciers? SAN FRANCISCO--The Himalaya Mountain region is warming up three to five times faster than the global trends--or about half a degree Celsius per decade--and many of its glaciers are rapidly losing mass. Greenhouse gases alone cannot explain this warming, however, and several new studies are pointing to an old form of pollution: soot. [More] rss.sciam.com |