NASA Mission Studies Air Pollution Over Ethiopia
A NASA-funded air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the…
‘Mission accomplished’: Parks Canada celebrates first release of captive-bred caribou into Jasper’s wild herd
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…
Mars Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Field of Polygons
The surface of Mars is home to some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring landscapes in the solar…
MOTHRA Shows Us A Star Being Recycled in the Helix Nebula
Most stars end their lives not in cataclysmic supernova explosions, but with a final exhalation instead. Main sequence…
Particulate air pollution undermines plant water-use efficiency by inhibiting photosynthesis
Keenan, T. F. et al. Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise. Nature 499,…
Using Starlink’s Satellites To Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in…
NASA finally figured out what’s up with those “Mars spiders”
Dark shapes pictured on the surface of Mars resembling spiders. Image credits: ESA/TGO/CaSSIS. For years, satellites around Mars…
How to Prevent Biofuels from Causing Deforestation – Energy Institute Blog
A tax on food uses of vegetable oils could insulate global vegetable-oil prices from U.S. biofuel policy, thereby…
HEO to use Planet satellites for non-Earth imaging
WASHINGTON — HEO, the Australian company that uses Earth observation satellites to take images of other spacecraft, has…
“You’re looking at one of the wildest landscapes on Earth and watching a species that almost nobody has ever studied.“
Researchers have uncovered new information about a rare rodent known as the Wolffsohn’s viscacha, allowing them to reclassify…
Denisovans Were Surprisingly Tall, New Fossils from Taiwan Suggest
Two fossilized leg bones of Denisovans — an extinct archaic Homo group whose lineage diverged from the Neanderthal…
The End of the European Summer
Although climate scientists warned in the nineteen-eighties that extreme heat posed a growing danger, policymakers in Europe didn’t…