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Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations…
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…
She wrote about damage that accumulated slowly, in places most people did not look, and about the systems that allowed it to be ignored. When her own life was overtaken by illness, she approached that, too, as a problem to…
Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area encompasses an area of Amazon Rainforest more than half the size of Belgium. Or at least it used to. The embattled reserve has lost around half of its primary forest cover since it…
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,…
We look at some of our best stories of 2025 that you might have missed in the year’s avalanche of news.
Times journalists are accompanying a group of scientists on an arduous, weekslong trip to study a key glacier in Antarctica. Here’s what to know.
ELEUTHERA, Bahamas — Tucked away beside the main road that runs along Eleuthera, a narrow island in the Bahamas, the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve holds 12 hectares (30 acres) of dense subtropical dry forest. Black witch moths (Ascalapha odorata),…
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…
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,…