Environment & Sustainability

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Five Yanomami infants in Brazil die amid whooping cough outbreak

Five Indigenous Yanomami infants have reportedly died from a preventable respiratory illness called pertussis, or whooping cough. The outbreak began Jan. 7 in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Roraima state in northern Brazil. A representative of the Urihi Yanomami Association…

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997 For the millions of people across the United States who have spent the last month digging themselves out of above-average levels…

Risks of Human Spaceflight

Human Spaceflight Hazards HRP Home Hazards Overview The Five Hazards Space Radiation Isolation & Confinement Distance from Earth Gravity Fields Hostile/Closed Environments Risks Overview Ongoing HRP Research Risks of Human Spaceflight NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) seeks to understand specific…

Cosmic Origins Special Announcement

Cosmic Origins … Cosmic Origins Community Cosmic Origins Special… About Community Executive Committee Science Groups News & Events Cosmic Pathfinders Early Career Workshop Opportunities Missions Studies News & Events Resources   Cosmic Origins Special Announcement 27 February 2026 A very…

Dragon Returns to Earth, More Cargo Preps, Advanced Research Underway

Expedition 74 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Chris Williams, both NASA astronauts, collect frozen research samples from inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. The samples were stowed inside science freezers aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for retrieval and…

NASA Adds Mission to Artemis Lunar Program, Updates Architecture

A graphic illustrating NASA’s increased cadence of Artemis missions. NASA As part of a Golden Age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday, Feb. 27, the agency is increasing its cadence of missions under the Artemis program to achieve the national objective…

Senegal gas project draws international scrutiny

The  UK’s OECD national contact point (NCP), which oversees complaints related to corporate conduct with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has ruled admissible a complaint from Senegalese fishers alleging wrongdoing by energy companies in Senegal.      A local…