Environment & Sustainability

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Alicia (Aly) Mendoza-Hill

Alicia (Aly) Mendoza-Hill Program Executive, Heliophysics Division Alicia Mendoza-Hill is a program executive within the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Heliophysics Division. In her role, she manages the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and Joint EUV coronal Diagnostic Investigation (JEDI) missions. Additionally, Mendoza-Hill…

How Shining a Light on Ships Could Help Solve Illegal Fishing

Sixteen countries have adopted the Mombasa Declaration to combat illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing. The biggest weapon in their arsenal: transparency. By Johnny Sturgeon Mamadou Sarr remembers when an artisanal fisherman in Dakar only had to helm his wooden pirogue…

Moon Trees

Living Tributes to Lunar Exploration Moon Trees Sprouted from seeds that journeyed around the Moon aboard Apollo 14 in February 1971, “Moon Trees” planted across the United States endure as living reminders of Apollo-era lunar exploration. In 2022, a new…

Stages of Star Formation

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month shows the giant molecular cloud Orion A, an area of the sky replete with star-forming clouds. ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Megeath, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç This…