Environment

La NASA presenta iniciativas para cumplir con la política espacial nacional de Estados Unidos

Read this news release in English here. Como parte de su evento “Ignition” (Encendido) celebrado el martes, la NASA anunció una serie de iniciativas transformadoras a nivel de toda...

‘It smells like a rancid fish and chip shop’: at sea with the Antarctic’s krill supertrawlers

It is bitterly cold on the deck of the Allankay and the bosun, Luca Massari, is checking that none of us are wearing contact...

NASA’s Water-Hunting Tool Will Help Scout Moon’s South Pole 

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...

‘Extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas as new twins born in DRC

A second set of mountain gorilla twins has been born in Virunga national park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), in what...

NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets

As NASA seeks to understand the mysteries of the universe, the agency is advancing technologies to locate and explore Earth-like planets far beyond our...

Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017

A U-turn by the UK’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom means it will investigate complaints of climate change denial on television and radio for the first...

NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America’s National Space Policy

As part of its “Ignition” event on Tuesday, NASA announced a series of transformative agencywide initiatives designed to achieve President Donald J. Trump’s National...

Epic river migrations of fish rapidly collapsing, UN report finds

“It’s very hard to imagine what’s going on beneath the water when you look at a river – but you have billions of fish...

See NASA’s GUARDIAN Catch a Tsunami

A new data visualization illustrates how an experimental NASA technology can provide extra lead time to communities in the path of a tsunami. Called...

More North Sea drilling will put UK at mercy of fossil fuel markets, ministers say

Ministers have said expanding North Sea drilling would put the UK at further risk from volatile fossil fuel markets, amid calls from the Conservatives...

Science Through Shadows: How Astronomical Alignments Reveal the Universe

When one celestial object passes in front of another, it can cast a shadow that travels across space – and sometimes across Earth. These...