Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30
Hailed by Brazil as “a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in global climate action,” a blueprint for global health systems to adapt to rising temperatures and extreme weather has been launched at the COP30 UN climate conference.Continue Reading
‘A wave of truth’: COP30 targets disinformation threat to climate action
Negotiators in Belém, Brazil, opened COP30 with a stark warning: the race to avert catastrophic global heating is being sabotaged by a surge of climate disinformation. The falsehoods, spreading faster than ever online, threaten to derail fragile progress on climate action.Continue Reading
50 States, 50 Fixes
A series about local solutions, and the people behind them, to environmental problems.Continue Reading
From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
“MIT.nano is essential to making progress in high-priority areas where I believe that MIT has a responsibility to lead,” opened MIT president Sally Kornbluth at the 2025 Nano Summit. “If we harness our collective efforts, we can make a serious positive impact.” It was these collective efforts that drove discussionsContinue Reading
Responding to the climate impact of generative AI
In part 2 of our two-part series on generative artificial intelligence’s environmental impacts , MIT News explores some of the ways experts are working to reduce the technology’s carbon footprint. The energy demands of generative AI are expected to continue increasing dramatically over the next decade. For instance, an April 2025Continue Reading
NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Spacecraft Have Deployed
An artist’s concept shows the two ESCAPADE spacecraft at Mars. The ESCAPADE mission is the first to coordinate two spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth. Rocket Lab NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) twin spacecraft have deployed from the Blue Origin New Glenn secondContinue Reading
ExoPAG 33 – Policies and Conduct
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Liftoff! NASA’s ESCAPADE Begins Journey to Mars
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft launches at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Blue Origin NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)Continue Reading
ExoPAG 33 – Early Career Talks
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ExoPAG 33 – Resources
ExEP … ExoPAG 33… ExoPAG 33… 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
Important Launch Milestones for NASA’s ESCAPADE
NASA’s twin ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft sit atop Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ahead of launch from Space Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Blue Origin Launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission is scheduledContinue Reading
Welcome to Launch Coverage for NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission
Technicians with Blue Origin encapsulate NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) inside a payload fairing to protect the spacecraft at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Blue Origin Launch day is here for NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers)Continue Reading












