Environment & Sustainability

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The State of CERES: Updates and Highlights

Explore This Section Earth Earth Observer Editor’s Corner Feature Articles Meeting Summaries News Science in the News Calendars In Memoriam Announcements More Archives Conference Schedules Style Guide 42 min read The State of CERES: Updates and Highlights Introduction The Clouds…

2025 Arctic Report Card released & Photo Contest winners announced

2025 Arctic Report Card released & Photo Contest winners announced This aerial image, captured at Salmon Creek near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, June 27, 2025, shows a modern camping site set beside the remnants of historical Inuit sod houses at Salmon…

What We’re Bringing to Antarctica

What do a New York Times reporter and photographer pack for a two-month expedition to the fastest-melting glacier in Antarctica? Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee compare the must-have gear that they’re bringing for the journey.

2025 Space Station Science Snapshots

1 min read 2025 Space Station Science Snapshots NASA astronaut Zena Cardman processes bone cell samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox. NASA 2025 marks another year pushing the boundaries of scientific research aboard the International Space Station.…

A nuclear power plan exposes Kenya’s deeper land rights issues

From the shores of Sanita Kitole’s quiet coastal town of Uyombo in southern Kenya, one can see dolphins bobbing in the water from time to time. The environmental activist has grown deeply attached to the biodiversity of his region, he…

NASA to Preview US Spacewalks at Space Station in January

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers is pictured during a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system and relocate a communications antenna. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts will conduct a pair of spacewalks in January outside…

A Galactic Embrace

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb; Image Processing: NASA Frattare Mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (in white, gray, and red) and X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) come together in this photo of colliding spiral galaxies…

Top 10 Indigenous news stories that marked 2025

2025 saw a mix of news sweep through Indigenous communities around the world, touching on issues both new and old. Efforts to increase direct funding to support Indigenous peoples’ land rights have persisted for more than two decades now, but…