NASA Wins 3 Webby Awards, 5 People’s Voice Awards for 2022
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The JPL-managed NASA’s Global Climate Change and Solar System Exploration sites, along with JPL’s virtual tour, are among the winners.
NASA has earned three...
A closer look at climate finance
28 April 2022
Just this week Ireland announced its latest climate finance figures for 2020 – and it clocked in at €5.3 million less than...
Clusters of Weather Extremes Will Increase Risks to Corn Crops, Society
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To assess how climate warming will change risks such as crop failures and wildfires, it’s necessary to look at how the risks are...
Why emissions need to come down immediately and how we can get there.
22 April 2022
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Working Group report plugged a line that we’ve become all-too-familiar with: in order to...
California Field Campaign Is Helping Scientists Protect Diverse Ecosystems
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Above Santa Barbara County, the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series, or SHIFT, campaign collects data to understand land and aquatic ecosystems.
With...
Connect with NASA on Social Media this Earth Day
Life on Earth is chaotic and complex, and endlessly beautiful.
While NASA tirelessly looks outward searching for life among the stars, we also study our...
The importance of bees, explained
13 April 2022
When a lot of us think of biodiversity, we think of quiet forests or winding streams or a rainforest much further afield.
We...
Have a story about nature? We’d love to hear it!
12 April 2022
Talk to me for more than ten minutes in a pub booth or cafe, and there’s a good chance I’m going to...
Opinion: The Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss starts this weekend. Here’s why that’s so...
8 April 2022
Whether you’re working from home or an office, you’ve probably found yourself over recent weeks of spring taking a break or closing...
“Now or never”: key points from the latest IPCC report
5 April 2022
The third and final Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group report landed yesterday late afternoon – and we took some...
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