Environment & Sustainability

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Liftoff of NASA’s Newest Planet-Observing Satellite

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora small satellite, Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCat) CubeSat lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday,…

NASA’s Pandora Mission, CubeSats Ready for Flight

Teams encapsulate in early January, NASA’s Pandora small satellite, and NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat and several other payloads, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing along with several other satellites at…

Welcome to Launch Day for NASA’s Pandora Mission, CubeSats

Artist’s concept of Pandora spacecraft without thermal blanketing. NASA’s Pandora small satellite will travel to sun-synchronous orbit to study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets and the activity of their host stars. In this orbit, it will pass over…

Trump’s Venezuelan Oil Grab

Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and Washington bureau chief Marianne Lavelle as they discuss the complex and uncertain future of America’s oil interests in Venezuela. By Marianne Lavelle After the United States’ dramatic raid and capture…

Bob Weir, a musician who took the environment seriously

Bob Weir, who died today, January 10th, was best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. For decades he was also an unusually persistent environmental advocate, one who treated land, forests, and climate not as metaphors but as…