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Tyler Thorsen Research Scientist, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Tyler Thorsen’s general research interests includes remote sensing of clouds and aerosols along with studying their impacts on the Earth’s energy budget. He actively contributes to…
The Tingana Conservation Concession sits in the center of a unique wetland in the Alto Mayo Basin, the highest swamp in Peru with Amazonian characteristics. In its flooded forest, native moriche palms (Mauritia flexuosa, known in Peru as aguaje) and…
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After 25 years of continuous human presence in space, the International Space Station remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars. The orbiting laboratory is also…
A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered orangutan. Climate change and deforestation likely made the damage worse. By Nicholas Kusnetz Nearly three weeks after a cyclone…
Trump has shifted the U.S. approach to the Arctic, promoting oil and gas even as scientists have issued more dire warnings about the region.
From ramping up hot chocolate prices to threatening reindeer populations, global warming is taking a toll on the holiday season. By Kiley Price As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip…
Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules. The parties to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries…
Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand in the white room on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B…
6 min read NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A time-lapse video recorded at JPL in October shows…