Climate, Energy & Conservation
In the rugged, high-altitude meadows of the Eastern Himalayas in India, researchers have confirmed the presence of a tiny plant with purple-blue flowers, last documented in the country more than 150 y...
Make post-quantum readiness a procurement requirement now. Gear bought this cycle will still be running past Q-Day, so its cryptographic future is set at the purchase order. Contracts should require N...
In my own professional life, I was not a scientist, and therefore I never much paid attention to the kinds of rewards and honors that practicing scientists pass out to each other. But at some point ...
The first recorded leatherback sea turtle nest in Virginia history has been discovered at the Naval Air Station Oceana Dam Neck Annex in Virginia Beach.
More than 40 years after sediment from a volcanic eruption filled up a stretch of the North Fork Toutle River in the U.S. state of Washington, beavers are turning the smothered waterway into a thrivin...
"The Inter-American Court ... requires … joint production of climate knowledge between scientists and the custodians of such knowledge’ ..."The postClaim: The USA has a Legal Obligation to Fund Climat...
Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country's two largest reservoirs, dropped to record-low storage levels this month, according to data and analysis from the Bureau of Reclamation and the University of Co...
Sawfish, a group of large marine rays, derive their name from a striking appendage: Their long, saw-like snout lined with teeth-like scales. Nature intended these fish to use their snout, also called ...
After a week full of nasty weather across portions of the U.S., ridge-riding severe storms are expected to make a return to the Upper Midwest.
MEXICO CITY — In the heart of Mexico’s southwestern state of Michoacán, Juan Madrigal spends his free time organizing to protect the city of Uruapan’s urban ecological park, a 50-hectare (124-acre) pl...
Sea salt sold in markets across Lombok Island, Indonesia, is contaminated with microplastics, according to a recent study. Microplastics are small plastic particles less than 5 millimeters in length t...
PARIS (AP) — About 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and vacation resorts along the French Atlantic coast Thursday as the latest in a series of wildfires raged and hundreds of firefighters were ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently approved the launch of a space satellite mirror that will beam sunlight onto desired spots on Earth.
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant exoplanet hiding within one of the most closely studied planetary systems in the Milky Way, revealing a new way to search fo...
Being in space means cool science experiments, and one such experiment conducted by a NASA astronaut while he was aboard the International Space Station yielded interesting results.
Scientists are pleasantly surprised to have rediscovered a once presumed dead species that has emerged back in the spotlight after 60 years off the coast of Africa.
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of a new species of harvester ant, named Messor odrysarum.
America's commercial space industry has maintained a rapid launch cadence throughout July, sending everything from Starlink satellites to space station supplies into orbit. With more launches planned ...
The first-ever transmissible cancer to spread among fish in a freshwater setting has been discovered among brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memphremagog.
A NASA-led study revealed that a near-Earth object long mistaken for an asteroid—1998 SH2—is actually a hidden comet—a discovery that could prove vital for predicting future threats to Earth.