Dr. Michelle Hawkins Acting Deputy Associate Director for Research – NASA’s Earth Science Division Dr. Michelle Hawkins is the Acting Deputy Associate Director for Research in NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) at Headquarters in Washington, DC. In this role, she supports the Director in leading NASA’s Earth System Science Program,Continue Reading
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Amber Dooley Senior Outreach Coordinator, Contractor, CLARREO Pathfinder (CPF) Mission, Proposal Development Office (PDO), Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center My goal at NASA LaRC is to help scientists & engineers successfully share their science story. Whether that story is shared with the public on a mission website or duringContinue Reading
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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
Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross a border; they remain internally displaced yet uprooted all the same. But experts warn that in the not-so-distant future, entire nations could disappear beneath rising seas or become uninhabitable through drought.Continue Reading
Hektoria Glacier’s sudden eight-kilometer collapse stunned scientists, marking the fastest modern ice retreat ever recorded in Antarctica. Its flat, below-sea-level ice plain allowed huge slabs of ice to detach rapidly once retreat began. Seismic activity confirmed this wasn’t just floating ice but grounded mass contributing to sea level rise. TheContinue Reading
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To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of times more efficient at absorbing CO2 than trees. Meanwhile, in the pharmaceutical industry, cell culture is used to manufacture biologic drugs and other advanced treatments, including lifesaving gene and cell therapies.Continue Reading
Placing a lit candle in a window to welcome friends and strangers is an old Irish tradition that took on greater significance when Mary Robinson was elected president of Ireland in 1990. At the time, Robinson placed a lamp in Áras an Uachtaráin — the official residence of Ireland’s presidentsContinue Reading
With the City Council in Bessemer scheduled to vote Tuesday on a “hyperscale” data center, challenges from an environmental group and the Alabama Department of Transportation present potential obstacles for the wildly unpopular project. By Lee Hedgepeth, Dennis Pillion BESSEMER, Ala.—When Yale biologist Thomas Near and members of his researchContinue Reading
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credit: Blue Origin A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how itsContinue Reading