Environment & Sustainability

The president said he had negotiated a deal with tech giants to cover the energy costs of data centers, but offered few details. Experts said such pledges could prove difficult in practice.

Astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Kimiya Yui of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) displays production bags containing probiotic yogurt cultures for the BioNutrients-3 investigation on Oct. 2, 2025, aboard the International Space Station. NASA Certain nutrients critical for human…

NASA astronaut Chris Williams calls down to mission controllers during Crew Medical Officer training inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module. NASA/Jessica Meir Human research, advanced robotics, and experimental workout gear filled the schedule for the Expedition 74 crew…

PERU — The film uncovers the connection between one of Peru’s most iconic cultural traditions and one of its most endangered marine species. In northern fishing communities, the rostral teeth of the largetooth sawfish, once thought extinct in the waters…

Jaguars are increasingly targeted across Latin America for their roseate-patterned pelts and canine teeth, following decades of relatively little poaching. When researchers in Colombia investigated the jaguar trade within the country, they made a troubling discovery: Colombia’s small wildcats are…

Coalition government agrees to remove parts of controversial law and allow homes to rely on fossil fuels Germany’s coalition government has been accused of abandoning its climate targets after agreeing to scrap parts of a contentious heating law mandating the…

XRISM XRISM Home Spacecraft Science News For Scientists XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) launched on Sept. 6, 2023, from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center. It is the seventh in a series of X-ray observatories developed and operated by Japan. XRISM’s…

Advocates often assume communities of color just don’t know any better when it comes to eating healthy I met the man I’ll call Randy Johnson 13 years ago, as I began research in South Central Los Angeles. I’m an anthropologist…

XRISM XRISM Home Spacecraft Science News For Scientists XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) is designed to transform our understanding about some of the universe’s hottest regions, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity. It uses high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy…

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft secured to mobile launcher 1, leaves Launch Complex 39B to roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…