This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the birds I see most regularly here in ...

Covid-19 face masks, a chocolate wrapper from 1994 and a 30-year-old polystyrene burger box – the nests of Amsterdam’s Eurasian coots chart changes to consumer society through plastic waste. Usually, ...

A collection of small flutes carved from waterfowl bones may have been used as hunting aids, a new study suggests. Laurent Davin, an archaeologist at the French Research Center in Jerusalem, playing ...

Nest researcher Auke-Florian Hiemstra stumbled upon a bird nest that appeared to go back 30 years in time – filled with historical plastics. His discovery of successive layers of plastic in birds’ ...

Explore the Eurasian Coot up close in its natural environment BrewDog seeks rescuer as losses mount Union leaders issue new leadership ultimatum to Starmer The van dwellers left with no option but to ...