Environment & Sustainability

Learn about climate change, renewable energy, and sustainable living practices. CurioAtlas brings together research and solutions shaping the future of our planet.

A ‘climate-ready’ corridor created for Kyrgyzstan’s snow leopards

Kyrgyzstan has officially designated a massive stretch of its high-altitude landscape as a protected corridor for snow leopards and other mountain wildlife. The Ak Ilbirs ecological corridor, formalized in 2025, spans nearly 800,000 hectares (2 million acres) and was designed…

On the Historic Route From Selma to Montgomery, an AI Cloud Looms

In this rural Alabama community, some residents can’t flush their toilets. Developers want to build a state-of-the-art data center next door. By Lee Hedgepeth HAYNEVILLE, Ala.—When Alabamians marched from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 to demand voting rights for African…

Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 175: Space Nuclear Propulsion

Crews at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, install a flight reactor engineering development unit into Test Stand 400 in preparation for cold-flow testing. The test campaign began in July and ran through September and marked the first…

NASA Awards Contract for Construction Services in California

Credit: NASA NASA has selected multiple small businesses for the Western Regional Multiple Award Construction Contract, which supports a broad range of facility enhancement, modernization, and sustainment work at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, NASA’s Ames Research…