Data from multiple international agencies shows the reality of a rapidly warming world. By Bob Berwyn Several annual international climate reports released Tuesday indicate that relentless human-caused warming continued in 2025, especially in the oceans and at the poles. Continue Reading
Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid. (Image credit: Josh Edelson)Continue Reading
Portraits of the workers shoring up a broken world. The post Digging out in the Palisades Fire burn zone appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on an offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume even as Traitor 47 seeks to shut it down.Continue Reading
Los cuatro miembros de la tripulación SpaceX Crew-11 se juntaron para una foto de grupo con sus trajes presurizados Dragon durante una comprobación de dichos trajes en el módulo laboratorio Kibo de la Estación Espacial Internacional. En el sentido de las agujas del reloj, desde la parte inferior izquierda, aparecenContinue Reading
Four SpaceX Crew-11 members gather together for a crew portrait wearing their Dragon pressure suits during a suit verification check inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Clockwise from bottom left are, NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace ExplorationContinue Reading
Nathan Vassberg Acting Chief of Safety and Mission Assurance Nathan Vassberg is the acting chief of NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA), appointed to this role in December 2025. He is responsible for policy and oversight of all Safety and Mission Assurance (SMA) activities across the agency’s centersContinue Reading
Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During a scorching Arizona summer, researchers found that high temperatures caused damaging temperature fluctuations inside hives, leading to population declines. Smaller colonies were hit hardest, experiencing the most severe swings. As global temperatures rise,Continue Reading
A number of advanced energy technologies — including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power electronics — use protons as the key charge carrier. Whether or not these devices will be widely adopted hinges, in part, on how efficiently they can move protons. One class of materials knownContinue Reading
Experienced Antarctica guides tell Raymond Zhong, our climate reporter, how they set up camp on the Thwaites Glacier so scientists can measure how fast it’s melting. The biggest safety concern? Crevasses.Continue Reading
The humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip remains extremely serious, with harsh winter weather threatening to reverse recent gains in aid delivery, the United Nations said on Monday.Continue Reading
The strongest typhoon to make landfall this year in the Philippines has impacted a staggering 1.7 million children – and more than five million people overall.Continue Reading
SpaceX In this photo from early January 2026, teams prepare to encapsulate NASA’s Pandora small satellite, NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and the Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite lifted offContinue Reading