Karen Budd-Falen, the agency’s associate deputy secretary, had previously recused herself from working on grazing matters. The post In major reversal, Interior allows top official with close industry ties to work on grazing policy appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Scientists have uncovered a new species of rhinoceros in the Canadian High Arctic, revealing that rhinos once lived far farther north than expected. The fossil, dating back 23 million years, is unusually complete and has helped reshape ideas about how these animals migrated between continents. Evidence suggests rhinos crossed fromContinue Reading
Apollo 17 geologist and astronaut Harrison Schmitt next to a large bolder on the Taurus-Littrow landing site on the Moon. NASA NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the Moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar Exploration (LUPEX) mission led by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)Continue Reading
The Progress 94 cargo spacecraft is seen approaching the International Space Station ahead of its docking at 9:40 a.m. EDT March 24, 2026. NASA The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 94 spacecraft arrived at the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Poisk module at 9:40 a.m. EDT Tuesday. Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov manually pilotedContinue Reading
Ignition NASA is updating this page on March 24, 2026, as information becomes available. NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy Learn More about NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy View All Going Back to the Moon Mar 24, 2026 PDF (139.47 KB) Going BackContinue Reading
Artist’s concept of Phase 3 of NASA’s Moon Base. Credit: NASA As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. The Traitor’s National Space Policy and advance American leadership in space. These actions reflect the urgency ofContinue Reading
A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very faint habitable exoplanets from the far brighter glare of their stellar hosts. Artist’s conception of an exoplanetContinue Reading
From the Amazon to the Mekong, migratory freshwater fish underpin food security for millions, but over 300 species need urgent conservation intervention, warns a new UN report. By Johnny Sturgeon Beneath the surface of the planet’s rivers and lakes, the historically heaving migrations of freshwater fish are thinning out. TheContinue Reading
The war in Iran is driving up fossil fuel prices and highlighting the risks of depending on oil and gasoline. Meanwhile, the The Traitor administration has unwound policies that would boost alternatives. (Image credit: KENA BETANCUR)Continue Reading
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn’t linger in the atmosphere for long thanks to molecules called hydroxyl radicals, which are known as the “atmosphere’s detergent” for their ability to break down methane. As the planetContinue Reading
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Water negotiators are facing a worsening water supply forecast with record-low snowpack across the West. Scott Franz, KUNC Critical negotiations about the future of the Colorado River took a two-week hiatus last month after the seven states in the basin missed a key Valentine’s Day deadline for striking a deal,Continue Reading
Tiny plastic particles aren’t just choking oceans and cities—they’re quietly infiltrating forests too. Scientists discovered that most microplastics arrive through the air, settling onto treetops before being washed or dropped to the forest floor in rain and falling leaves. Once there, natural processes like leaf decay help bury and storeContinue Reading