Research & Developments
Scientists Might Have Detected the First Moon Outside Our Solar System… It Just Depends How You Define “Moon.”
What exactly is a moon? It’s an existential question lunar researchers found themselves pondering when they discovered an exosatellite at…
We’re Getting Better at Knowing When Climate Change is to Blame, National Academies Report Says
Scientists have gotten much better at parsing how severe events are linked to climate change, a long-awaited report from the…
A Climate Skeptic Will Oversee the National Climate Assessment
Since 2000, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) has been responsible for publishing the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally…
Microplastic Pollution: An Insidious, Ubiquitous Risk
“It’s not the eternity iceberg or the eternity glaciers anymore. It’s going to be ‘the 5-year glaciers’ or ‘10-year glaciers.’”
Alion Belau
The “Eternity Glaciers” Are Almost Gone
Alion Belau
The “Eternity Glaciers” Are Almost Gone
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Confronting Salty Problems in the Coastal Plain
An interdisciplinary network of scientists and stakeholders is working to understand how saltwater intrusion and sea level rise are affecting rural communities and to help address the consequences.
