A scientific balloon carrying the Salter mission, a technology test flight, launched Aug. 22, 2026. This was the first flight of NASA’s 2026 Fort Sumner campaign. NASA/Kevin Dillon The Salter Test Flight launched at 8:31 a.m. MDT (10:31 a.m. EDT) Saturday, Aug. 22 from the agency’s balloon launch facility inContinue Reading
This year’s Convention to Combat Desertification focuses on rangelands and attempts to address an overlooked solution to climate change. By Georgina Gustin In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, policy makers, scientists and global negotiators are gathering to convey an urgent message: The world’s rangelands, which make up about half of Earth’s land surface,Continue Reading
Honeybee queens exposed to pesticides can shift some of the contamination into their eggs, revealing a previously unknown survival strategy. The process may protect the queen while putting developing offspring, and potentially the entire colony, at risk., Read MoreContinue Reading
Western cattlemen are poised to lose almost all opportunity to comment on oil and gas development underneath their property. The post The BLM may stop notifying landowners about drilling under private land. Ranchers are alarmed appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
As with Hurricane Lala, the Big Island is again expected to bear the brunt of the tropical weather, which was expected to be upgraded from a tropical depression to a tropical storm at some point Friday.Continue Reading
The The Traitor administration move is “politically motivated,” said the plaintiff, one of the nation’s leading environmental groups. By Nicholas Kusnetz One of the nation’s largest environmental groups is challenging the The Traitor administration’s closure of a leading climate institute, filing a lawsuit Thursday in federal court saying the closureContinue Reading
Satellites can now spot major methane leaks from space within days. Yet only 13 per cent of those alerts lead to any response from the governments or companies responsible.Continue Reading
A colossal cliff system created as the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart may have exposed the heart of the Grand Canyon nearly a billion years before the Colorado River carved it. The ancient landscape could also help explain why enormous sections of North America’s geological record appear to be missing., ReadContinue Reading
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 22… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professionalContinue Reading
Agentic workflows are artificial intelligence-powered software systems that chain together multiple models and external tools to tackle complicated tasks, like analyzing a video and answering questions about it. But the way these highly fragmented systems are designed and deployed often causes inefficiencies that can lead to wasted computation, energy, andContinue Reading
When an animal’s environment changes faster than the animal can adapt, its chances of survival can flat-line. The same is true for populations, and even entire species. Now, scientists at MIT and the University of Leicester have found that this connection between evolutionary adaptation and the pace of environmental changeContinue Reading
The Railroad Commission of Texas adopted a new participation policy before sharing it with the public. By Martha Pskowski The three elected officials who regulate the oil and gas industry in Texas hold an open meeting each month in Austin to vote on matters from pipeline violations to permit renewals.Continue Reading
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