Environment & Sustainability

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

New Station Crew Counts Down to Thanksgiving Day Launch

Soyuz MS-28 crew members (from left) Chris Williams from NASA and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev, both from Roscosmos. GCTC One NASA astronaut and two Roscosmos cosmonauts are at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan counting down to a lift off…

Negotiating Africa’s Energy Future

A decade after countries agreed to the Paris climate agreement, Mongabay reports on an idea often invoked when discussing Africa’s path toward a low-carbon future: a just energy transition. Reporters from across the continent explore what “just” and “clean” energy…

Fossil fuel failure eclipses Africa’s wins at COP30

The climate talks at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, closed with gains for Africa, Indigenous peoples and adaptation finance — but the summit’s failure to agree on a global fossil fuel phase-out overshadowed those wins. This year’s climate summit produced several…

The bird people of Lake Manchar: surviving in a vanishing oasis

The Mohana of Pakistan’s Sindh province once thrived on the lake but pollution and drought have caused the fragile ecosystem to collapse, along with their way of life At the mouth of Lake Manchar, gentle lapping disturbs the silence. A…

Your Name in Landsat

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Rivers: Our National Water Resource

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