Environment & Sustainability

Trump has shifted the U.S. approach to the Arctic, promoting oil and gas even as scientists have issued more dire warnings about the region.

From ramping up hot chocolate prices to threatening reindeer populations, global warming is taking a toll on the holiday season. By Kiley Price As snowflakes fall lazily from the sky, you cozy up by the fireplace and take a sip…

Much of the world’s albacore tuna catch, which usually ends up in a can, comes from the southwestern Pacific Ocean, where fishery managers just passed a new set of conservation rules. The parties to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries…

Artemis II NASA astronauts (left to right) Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen stand in the white room on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B…

6 min read NASA JPL Shakes Things Up Testing Future Commercial Lunar Spacecraft To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A time-lapse video recorded at JPL in October shows…

The GAPS experiment prepares to launch from Antarctica Rubilotta NASA/Andy Hamilton The first scientific balloon flight of this year’s NASA Antarctica Balloon Campaign reached its float altitude after lifting off from the agency’s facility located near the U.S. National Science…

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A long, warm plume of airborne water snaked its way from the subtropical Pacific Ocean toward the U.S. West Coast at the beginning of this month. As the so-called atmospheric river made its way north, it sucked up moisture from…

Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies.

Kuan-Man Xu Senior Research Scientist, Climate Science Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center About Dr. Kuan-Man Xu has 30 years of experience in cloud/climate modeling and 20 years of experience in satellite data analysis, focusing on improving cloud parameterizations,…