An Interior Department statement did not detail the national security risks. It’s the administration’s latest pus to hobble offshore wind and limit renewable energy sources. (Image credit: Carolyn Kaster)Continue Reading
Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in individual armor and produce far more ants. Larger colonies then compensate with collective behaviors like group defense and coordinated foraging. The strategy has been linked to evolutionary success and greater speciesContinue Reading
Paul Stackhouse Senior Research Scientist, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Dr. Paul Stackhouse is the lead scientist of the NASA Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) Project, affliated with the World Climate Research Programme’s (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX), that produces and assesses long-term surfaceContinue Reading
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 The 13th flight of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with people as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Future Mission More Commercial Crew Program Read Crew-12 Blog where International Space Station Crew-12 is the 12th crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 13th flightContinue Reading
NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. The spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, VictorContinue Reading
Climate legislation requiring Michigan to get all its electricity from renewable sources became Gretchen Whitmer’s signature environmental bill. But now, tax incentives the governor granted data centers stand to trigger “off ramps” to more fossil fuel use. By Tom Perkins In late 2023, an unlikely state in the country’s industrialContinue Reading
Aviation’s climate impact is partly due to contrails — condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap heat that radiates from the planet’s surface, and while the magnitude of this impact is uncertain, several studies suggest contrailsContinue Reading
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 15 min read Sentinels in the Sky: 50 Years of GOES Satellite Observations Introduction In an era where satellite observations of Earth areContinue Reading
Students enrolled in MIT’s New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program recently collaborated across academic disciplines to design and construct a solar-powered charging station. Positioned in a quiet campus courtyard, the station provides the MIT community with climate-friendly power for phones, laptops, and tablets. Its installation marked the “first time aContinue Reading
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 12 min read Keeping Up with PACE: Summary of the 2025 PAC3 Meeting Introduction Launched in Feb. 2024, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, oceanContinue Reading
Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 7 min read Sentinel-6B Extends Global Ocean Height Record Introduction On November 16, 2025, the Sentinel-6B satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force BaseContinue Reading
Patrick Taylor Research Scientist, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Dr. Patrick Taylor, a research scientist at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center and member of the Radiation Budget Science Project. Dr. Taylor received Bachelor of Science in Earth Science from California UniversityContinue Reading
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