President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida further solidified their plans to send a Japanese astronaut to the upcoming lunar space station, while also affirming the possibility of having a Japanese astronaut walk on the Moon during future Artemis missions.
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Environmental and social justice-focused funds are booming—so much so that the Securities and Exchange Commission is mulling new regulations to clamp down on funds that fail to back up certain altruistic claims.
On Wednesday, the SEC proposed broadening the scope of its Names Rule, which...
The United Nations Postal Administration recently issued six new stamps and three souvenir sheets in celebration of human achievements on Mars.
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In a last-ditch effort to avoid a Massachusetts lawsuit, Exxon claimed being sued violated its First Amendment right to free speech. On Tuesday, that motion to dismiss the suit was thrown out in the state’s Supreme Judicial Court. The lawsuit, which accuses Exxon of lying for decades about the...
Once again, the Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be busier than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Tuesday.
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A project to develop diffractive solar sails has advanced to the third and final phase of NASA’s advanced concepts program. The team behind the project now has two years to further develop this unconventional means of space propulsion.
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NASA has shared the final self-portrait that will be taken by the InSight Mars lander, showing dust-caked solar panels that blend into the surrounding regolith. The InSight mission is expected to end this year, and the lander will need all of its remaining power to gather as much scientific data...
Yes, that sub-hed sounds like gibberish to us too.
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Californians may be headed towards mandatory water use restrictions. In a Monday meeting, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned many of the state’s big municipal water suppliers that, if their current local strategies don’t work to bring water demand down, he would introduce statewide orders.
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More than 17 million Americans, including nearly 4 million children, are currently living within half a mile (0.8 kilometers) of an active upstream oil and gas facility and could be at risk of health impacts, an exhaustive new geospatial analysis released Tuesday finds. An updated interactive...
China’s Zhurong rover is currently in safe mode as it waits out a Martian dust storm, according to Chinese state-run media, and it may remain in safe mode until the end of 2022.
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In a classic “pivot-to-crypto-to-reinvent-yourself” moment, controversial WeWork founder Adam Neumann recently launched a startup, Flowcarbon, to sell tokenized carbon credits on the blockchain.
Venture capitalists just can’t seem to get enough of Neumann and his spouse/co-founder, Rebekah,...
If the world ever ends, the place to be is space. In space, the problems of the Earth don’t exist. There’s just a whole other set of problems. But maybe, just maybe, there are some solutions too. That’s the set up for Rubikon, a new sci-film coming to theaters and on-demand July 1.
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Last week some of the biggest financial institutions in the world came together to talk ethics and socially conscious investment at the Financial Times’ Moral Money Summit. And it went great, no notes. You guys, banks are going to fix it. The free market is gonna solve climate change.
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If you’ve ever laid awake at night wondering about how bad wildfires, droughts, storms, and floods could get in the future, then climate change has already been robbing you of sleep.
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Cherry blossoms in Kyoto, Japan are blooming earlier according to a new study from the Met Office in the United Kingdom.
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We’ve been capturing space-based images of Earth for nearly three-quarters of a century, but these eight views of Earth are each profound in their own way.
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The federal government is banking big on the idea of a climate change “undo” button.
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States in the northeast U.S. are expected to experience the country’s first major heatwave of 2022 this weekend, with temperatures cresting well over 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius).
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I don’t cover post-IPO companies a lot, and Coca-Cola is def on the list of ones I can generally ignore. But when the company sends out a hand-wringing press release about how awesome they are for launching a bottle cap where the cap stays attached to the bottle “for environmental reasons,”...
A startling discovery was made by two kayakers. It happened last summer, while the pair were paddling along the Minnesota River. Because the river had receded after a regional drought, they were able to see an object on the banks of the river. They went closer and saw that it looked like human...
Hurricane season is just on the horizon, and this year rising temperatures are headed toward a “La Niña” effect that could cause bigger and stronger tropical storms in the Atlantic.
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Parts of Spain could see record-breaking heat this weekend as the country prepares for what could be the earliest summer heatwave on record, officials said this week.
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We’re drooling over the latest image dump from the Solar Orbiter mission. These incredible pictures and videos, captured during its close approach in March, highlight the awesome power of this probe to show us our host star in a whole new light.
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Office buildings in Silicon Valley tend to make other office buildings look surprisingly small and shabby. Now, while there are few people that will say that got FOMO over an office, there is no doubt that Google’s newest campus in Mountain View, California is mighty nice and neat, even as...
A new report from climate research organization Oil Change International has found that almost half of the fossil fuels that could come out of existing coal mines and oil and gas fields need to stay untouched, if we’re going to stop warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial...
French car manufacturer Renault unveiled a potentially groundbreaking reimagining of their Scénic model that features a battery that runs on hydrogen. The announcement was a part of a ChangeNOW summit that took place today in Paris.
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Voyager 1 is nearly 14.5 billion miles from Earth and continues to hurtle out of the solar system at about 38,000 miles per hour. But NASA engineers working on the 44-year-old spacecraft have recently been vexed by the probe’s articulation and control system, which is generating data that...