Environment & Sustainability

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Snakes on a train: King cobras are hitching rides in India

On India’s railways, stowaways are not limited to ticketless passengers. Some arrive without limbs, luggage or much interest in timetables. A paper recently published in Biotropica suggests that king cobras (Ophiophagus kaalinga) may occasionally hitch a ride on trains in…

Julie Ziffer

Explore This Section Home Overview NEO Observations Program Missions NEO Surveyor DART News Team Supporting Documents More Media Resources Julie Ziffer Program Officer Julie Ziffer is a professor of Physics at the University of Southern Maine and is on temporary…

Another controversial land deal in Suriname threatens the Amazon Rainforest

Officials in Suriname are trying to cancel a controversial agribusiness contract that could result in the clearance of over a hundred thousand hectares of Amazon rainforest, risking the country’s carbon-negative status. In 2024, the agriculture ministry partnered with a private…

Crew-12 Targets Friday Launch as Expedition 74 Keeps Up Tech, Psych Research

The four crew members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station are (from left) Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mission Specialist Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir, Crew-12 Pilot and Commander respectively, and ESA (European Space…

Steve Gayle

Steve Gayle Acting Associate Director, NASA’s Langley Research Center Steve Gayle is the acting associate director at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In this role, Gayle manages daily operations of Langley’s approximately $1 billion research and development center.…