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White House Releases STEM Education Strategy

by Randy Showstack 5 December 201810 May 2022

The strategy focuses on maintaining the nation’s STEM leadership, and it emphasizes inclusion, diversity, and workforce development.

The Western Hemisphere seen from space
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Tracing the Path of Carbon in North America

Jenessa Duncombe, Staff Writer by Jenessa Duncombe 4 December 20187 April 2023

A team of more than 200 scientists released a decade-long look at how carbon weaves through Earth’s air, soil, water, and plants. Here are nine key takeaways from their report.

Mars and WALL-E’s (MarCO-B) solar panel during flyby
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Hello, Goodbye: First Interplanetary CubeSats Zip Past Mars

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 4 December 201817 January 2023

The InSight lander safely arrived on Mars early last week. Two tiny spacecraft made up part of its communications array and transmitted landing data back to Earth.

Jezero crater delta and its minerology
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Martian Crater Will Be the Landing Site for a Future Rover

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 30 November 201817 January 2023

The impact crater is a dry lake bed that contains evidence of ancient water flows and perhaps signs of ancient microbial life.

A firefighter looks on as homes burn in Northern California’s Camp Fire earlier in November 2018.
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Communities of Color Are More Vulnerable to Wildfires

Ilima Loomis, Science Writer by Ilima Loomis 29 November 201827 October 2022

Affluent white people are more likely to live in fire-prone areas, but race and socioeconomic vulnerability can put minority communities at greater risk, a new study finds.

Emissions from the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired powerplant located in Arizona
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Bipartisan Legislation Would Put a Price on Carbon

by Randy Showstack 28 November 20187 April 2023

A bill introduced in Congress yesterday could help cut U.S. carbon pollution by 40% in 10 years.

The amphitheater of the ancient Roman city of Aventicum, in the Swiss town of Avenches
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Ancient Romans Polluted Their Lakes Just Like We Do Today

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 28 November 20182 November 2021

Sediments from a lake in Switzerland reveal that ancient Romans triggered dead zones caused by the runoff of nutrients. Sound familiar?

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Groups Gear Up to Fight Oil and Gas Development in Arctic Refuge

by Randy Showstack 28 November 201827 March 2023

With Democrats controlling the House of Representatives beginning in January, advocates see an opportunity to try to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil and gas development.

Jean Dickey at retirement party
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Jean O’Brien Dickey (1945–2018)

by V. Zlotnicki and S. Owen 26 November 201828 October 2021

This pioneer in space geodesy started as a particle physicist and went on to unravel relationships between Earth’s rotation and climate processes.

Artist’s impression of asteroids about to impact Greenland
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Enormous Impact Crater Spotted in Greenland Under Glacial Ice

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 20 November 20181 October 2021

Ice-penetrating radar revealed a 31-kilometer impact crater—one of the world’s largest—in northwestern Greenland that might have been formed fewer than 20,000 years ago.

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