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If protected, researchers say these coral strongholds may help repopulate more degraded reefs across the Central Pacific. By Teresa Tomassoni MAJURO, Marshall Islands—Perched on the bow of an aluminum landing craft, Anne Cohen gazed a few yards ahead of the vessel toward a yellow robot gliding across the emerald MajuroContinue Reading

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Millipedes may have been crawling across Earth’s landscapes nearly 460 million years ago, long before vertebrates ventured onto land. A new study finally completes their evolutionary family tree, revealing surprising clues about these ancient ecosystem engineers and their early chemical defenses., Read MoreContinue Reading

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The author of “When Trees Testify” on the intertwined nature of America’s history, its trees and Black Americans. Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with botanist and author Beronda Montgomery.Continue Reading

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ExEP … Meetings/Events 248th AAS Meeting ExEP Home Overview Team Missions Science Overview Decadal Surveys ExoExplorers Technology Technology Overview Needs and Gap Lists Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) Awards ExEP Technology Colloquium Series In-Space Servicing and Assembly (iSSA) Segmented Coronagraph Design and Analysis (SCDA) Starshade Technology Development Starshade Exoplanet Data ChallengeContinue Reading

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ExEP … Meetings/Events ExoPAG… ExEP Home Overview Team Missions Science Overview Decadal Surveys ExoExplorers Technology Technology Overview Needs and Gap Lists Strategic Astrophysics Technology (SAT) Awards ExEP Technology Colloquium Series In-Space Servicing and Assembly (iSSA) Segmented Coronagraph Design and Analysis (SCDA) Starshade Technology Development Starshade Exoplanet Data Challenge NN-Explore OverviewContinue Reading

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Often hailed as the most successful international environmental agreement of all time, the 1987 Montreal Protocol continues to successfully phase out the global production of chemicals that were creating a growing hole in the ozone layer, causing skin cancer and other adverse health effects. MIT-led studies have since shown theContinue Reading