Environment & Sustainability

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Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development

The Bureau of Land Management opened nominations last week for the first-ever oil and gas lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, setting the stage for development that three Gwich’in governments are now suing to stop. Raeann…

Indonesia’s steel expansion risks a surge in greenhouse gas emissions

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s steel industry is becoming one of the country’s fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, even as it receives far less public attention than other carbon-intensive sectors. The industry is already one of the country’s largest industrial emitters,…

Explorer 1

Explorer 1 America’s First Satellite: The United States entered the Space Age on Jan. 31, 1958 with the successful launch of Explorer 1. Once orbit was confirmed, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director William H. Pickering, University of Iowa physicist James Van…

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