NASA’s Mineral Dust Detector Starts Gathering Data
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Newly installed on the space station, the instrument, called EMIT, will help answer questions about how mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions affects...
US-European Satellite Will Make World’s First Global Freshwater Survey
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will make measurements of over 95% of Earth’s lakes, rivers, and reservoirs.
Water is life, but for...
Climate Patterns Thousands of Miles Away Affect US Bird Migration
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A NASA-led study links bird migration timing to large-scale climate patterns originating thousands of miles away.
Every spring, migratory birds arrive in the continental...
NASA’s New Mineral Dust Detector Readies for Launch
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Designed to analyze airborne dust to see how it might affect climate, the EMIT mission launches to the International Space Station on Thursday,...
NASA Highlights Climate Research on Cargo Launch, Sets Coverage
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Riding aboard will be EMIT, a mission developed at JPL to identify the composition of airborne mineral dust from Earth’s arid regions and...
Opposition to mining in County Clare grows as prospecting license granted
6 July 2022
Over recent months, local opposition has been building against possible mineral prospecting in east Clare.
Resistance in East Clare
Opposition was largely spurred on...
Opposition to mining in Clare grows as licensing looms
6 July 2022
Over recent months, local opposition has been building against possible mineral prospecting in east Clare.
Resistance in East Clare
Opposition was largely spurred on...
Culture Column: The Saga of the Swamp Thing
6 July 2022
Comic book characters are at the height of popularity right now. The characters created by DC and Marvel in particular have been...
So long from our editor, Kayle Crosson
24 June 2022
As some of you may have seen on Twitter this week, today is my last official day as editor of The...
Subpopulation of Greenland Polar Bears Found by NASA-Funded Study
Greenland’s fjords harbor a unique group of polar bears that rely on glacial ice, a NASA-funded study reports in Science.
Polar bears throughout the Arctic...
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