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By Michael J. Coren Armed with new drones, Brazilian authorities are sending them out over the wilderness to hunt for poachers and illegal mining and logging. Brazil's environmental police are deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to monitor the country's vast forest for illegal logging, drug trafficking and other crimes.

By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Namibia's capital, Windhoek, is four years from running out of water should a recent pattern of above-average rains end and it needs to start filling aquifers artificially to counter the threat, a senior government official said on Wednesday. [More]

* Turkey requests international aid * Complaints of survivors grow [More]

By Pracha Hariraksapitak BANGKOK (Reuters) - Floodwater swamped a new area of Thailand's capital on Wednesday as some shops started rationing food and the prime minister warned that parts of Bangkok could be flooded for up to a month. [More]

This year has been the worst in recent history for natural disasters in the U.S., with record-level floods, fires, and hurricanes.

For decades computer scientists have strived to build machines that can calculate faster than the human brain and store more information. [More]

Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world cannot match the overall processing power of the brain. And they are nowhere near as compact or energy efficient . Nevertheless, IBM is trying to simulate the human brain with its own cutting-edge supercomputer, called Blue Gene

“With the loss of these one, two, maybe 10 million bat individuals in these populations, what are the implications?” Bats in the US are being plagued by a fungal condition called white nose syndrome. Northern Arizona University biologist Jeffrey Foster talked at the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff on October 16th about what the loss of large numbers of bats would mean

[Audio from launch: “We’re ready to go with the liftoff, and we’ll be back with you after Soyuz has cleared the tower.] [More]

The nearly three weeks since Steve Jobs's death has been like an extended tribute to the first global head of state. The memorial ceremonies worldwide, the special commemorative issues and, today, the release of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs , all bear testament to the Apple founder's legacy

Three members o f Scientific American ‘s editorial staff are joining the conversation this week at the Compass Summit , a conference created to help leaders focus on global challenges and economic opportunities facing their organizations and society. The conference is designed to build on last year’s Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe. Compass was organized by a team that includes Brent Schlender, a long-time foreign correspondent at Fortune and The Wall Street Journal ; Peter Petre, former executive editor at Fortune ; and Carolyn Jones and Michael Christman, co-founders of the 100 People Foundation

To become a world bathed in oceans of water and habitable, Earth first had to take a beating. A popular hypothesis holds that icy comets and asteroids pummeling early Earth delivered the planet's water from the icy outer reaches of the solar system.

From the Andes to the Himalayas, scientists are starting to question exactly how much glaciers contribute to river water used downstream for drinking and irrigation.

Traffic backed up along Baltimore’s inner harbor last week as protestors from the “Occupy” movement waved signs and shouted at the passing drivers. And among the protestors were scientists and science students, unhappy with their job prospects, their funding prospects, and the way science is viewed in America. I had heard about the protests on the news, and hadn’t paid too much attention

By Ben Hirschler LONDON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Turkey is much better placed to [More]