Environment & Sustainability

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Learning to handle some of the world’s most venomous snakes – video

With a reported boom in people becoming snake handlers, Guardian Australia’s Joe Hinchcliffe attended a venomous snake handling course in Queensland to investigate what’s involved in training to wrangle some of the world’s deadliest snakes. Christina Zdenek and Chris Hay,…

6 Things to Know From NASA About New US, European Sea Satellite

6 min read 6 Things to Know From NASA About New US, European Sea Satellite Set to launch no earlier than Nov. 16, Sentinel-6B will continue a decades-long data record of sea level measurement that will help decision-makers manage coastal…

Mongabay Fellows share their ‘Letters to the Future’

This is a short commentary by Mongabay fellowship editor Karen Coates. Uncertainty and hope — these sentiments prevail in a series of commentaries published by the latest cohort of Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellows as they conclude their program…

NASA, Partners Nearing International Ocean Tracking Mission Launch

Technicians and engineers encapsulate the Sentinel-6B spacecraft within a protective payload fairing inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. SpaceX Technicians are continuing launch preparations for Sentinel-6B, a satellite…

Week Wraps on Station With Cardiac Research, Stem Cells, and Eye Checks

A bright yellow-green airglow blankets Earth’s horizon, dotted with the city lights of northern India, beneath a star-filled sky. This long-exposure photograph was taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above the Himalayas at approximately 1:11…

NASA Sets Launch Coverage for International Ocean Tracking Mission

In this artist’s concept, the ocean-observing satellite Sentinel-6B orbits Earth with its deployable solar panels extended. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for Sentinel-6B, an international mission delivering critical sea level and ocean data…