Environment & Sustainability

Seals favored by Svalbard bears are becoming easier to hunt as ice declines, a study found. But researchers say the situation may be temporary.

Three CubeSats are ejected from the Japanese Small Satellite Orbital Deployer attached to a robotic arm outside of the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module in June of 2019. NASA Expedition 74 focused on installing CubeSats and observing Earth aboard…

Ames SC Division Space Biosciences Division Who We Are Bioengineering Branch (SCB) Flight Systems Implementation Branch (SCF) Space Biosciences Research Branch (SCR) Division Management What We Do Programs, Projects, & Missions Education Information for Researchers Publications Missions Contacts More Ames…

Green auroral arcs extend across the sky in this photo captured in northwestern Canada in 2019. The right arc is a typical auroral arc, while the brighter arc on the left is transforming into another type of aurora with bead-like…

In this composite image, red pixels mark locations on Europa’s surface where ammonia-bearing compounds were detected; purple indicates no such detection. Captured by NASA’s Galileo mission in 1997, the data is overlaid on a black-and-white mosaic that zooms in on…

Jayanta Kar Research Scientist Lead, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Jayanta Kar’s early research was in the area of Astrophysics, studying the effect of magnetic fields on stellar structure and oscillations. Subsequently, he worked…

Ecuador has 65 oil and gas lease blocks, 88% of them in the Amazon, covering a quarter of the country’s total area. That’s according to a new data set from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). Many of the lease blocks…

Information tribunal rules Soil Association must disclose salmon farm inspection reports to WildFish campaigners Campaigners have forced the Soil Association to reveal its salmon farm inspection reports, amid claims that certifying the farmed fish as “organic” is misleading to consumers.…

For John Moscato, a land developer in Las Cruces, N.M., installing gas lines at new home sites was “an ongoing headache.” Ditching gas saved him money.