Environment & Sustainability

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

Indonesia closes 2025 with rising disasters and stalled environmental reform

JAKARTA — Indonesia closed 2025 facing an uncomfortable reality: climate disasters are escalating while policy direction has remained largely unchanged during President Prabowo Subianto’s first year in office, with the country still heavily dependent on fossil fuels and extractive industries…

Katie Picchione

Katie Picchione Response Coordination Lead, Disaster Response Coordination System, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About As the Response Coordination Lead for NASA’s Disasters Response Coordination System (DRCS), Katie works with the DRCS team, subject matter experts across the Agency,…

Overlooked Stories

We look at some of our best stories of 2025 that you might have missed in the year’s avalanche of news.

The 2026 Marine Debris Calendar is now available!

The 2026 Marine Debris Calendar is now available! Download the 2026 Marine Debris Calendar on our website now! (Image credit: Aaliyah R. M., Grade 8, Puerto Rico) Download Image December 15, 2025 The NOAA Marine Debris Program is proud to…

Curiosity Sends Holiday Postcard from Mars

NASA/JPL-Caltech Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning periods that occurred on both the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days,…

NASA’s Chandra Rings in New Year With Champagne Cluster

X-ray: NASA Bouhrik et al.; Optical:Legacy Survey/DECaLS/BASS/MzLS; Image Processing: NASA Edmonds and L. Frattare Celebrate the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a galaxy cluster seen in this new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers discovered…