Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community Galaxies SIG Seminar, 8… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups Conferences Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources Galaxies SIG Seminar Galaxies Science Interest Group Galaxies SIG about Galaxies SIG Seminar Location Virtual dates 8 September 20261:00pm ETContinue Reading
The Interior Department will soon publish a ‘categorical exclusion’ that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve. The post Arctic drilling in Alaska won’t get environmental review in new proposal appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
The West Coast is home to one of the busiest freight corridors in the United States, and it’s getting cleaner.Continue Reading
As temperatures rise and energy challenges mount, advocates are looking to renewable projects to ease the growing strain. By Lauren Dalban NEW YORK—When nearly 10,000 people in Southeast Queens lost power during a July heatwave, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called on residents to keep their air conditioners at 78 degrees toContinue Reading
An ice avalanche that started high in the Himalayas tumbled thousands of feet, releasing vast amounts of energy that pulverized the ice into a significant volume of flood water.Continue Reading
With air and sea surface temperatures already breaking records, this year’s episode is on track to be the strongest in living memory.Continue Reading
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 27 –… 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 aContinue Reading
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A Manhattan-sized ice island has broken away from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier after years of growing fractures weakened its floating ice tongue. Scientists expect two more huge sections could soon detach, potentially removing about 22 percent of the remaining ice tongue., Read MoreContinue Reading
The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region’s vulnerability to extreme weather. (Image credit: Niranjan Shrestha)Continue Reading
Promising efforts to restore degraded land are now in the spotlight at a time when 40 per cent of the world’s land currently faces degradation and drought, threatening the livelihoods of over three billion people, the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said Wednesday, announcing three winnersContinue Reading
A sitting Conservative MP spread climate-related conspiracy theories that could increase the “threat of serious violence” in Canada, according to a secret briefing from the Canada Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). As wildfires raged across Canada last month, Cheryl Gallant used her Facebook account to amplify rhetoric that casts doubt onContinue Reading
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational communities who depend on it requires more than engineering talent. It requires planning for an uncertain future:Continue Reading