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<!-- In-Depth Stories--> We’re celebrating, and advocating for, our earth this week. In the lead-up to Earth Day on Monday, EarthDay.org organizers promoted the theme “Planet vs.…

April 22, 2024 March to End the Plastic Era, INC-4, Ottawa, March 21, 2024 | Photo Credit: Chris Wilke Recently, in honor of Earth Day, a diverse group of 54 organizations from 24 countries across North and South America, Africa, Europe,…

April 2, 2024 (PITTSBURGH) April 2, 2024 – Recently, EPA Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz and Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) visited the Environmental Charter School…

Stanford students share how Stanford’s campus serves as a living lab to advance sustainability initiatives. (Image credit: Keith Uyeda) To mark the beginning of Earth Month, Stanford community members gathered at Paul Brest…

Soil contains about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and plants combined. It is a major carbon sink, capable of absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it releases. Management of soil carbon is key in efforts to…

Celebrate Earth Month in April in Miami-Dade County. Enjoy a variety of fun-filled family friendly activities, events, tips and much more. Events April 1-7 Food Waste Prevention Week Learn more about food waste and how to take action to…

Judy Zhang, left, and Rita Parai in Parai's laboratory. Credit: Sean Garcia/Washington University in St. Louis In Earth science, small…

How do Native youth activists envision a sustainable future? How are Native communities uniquely affected by climate change? This Earth Day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents Youth In Action:…

The Smithsonian is celebrating the Earth throughout the month of April with free festivals, programs and performances in Washington, D.C.; Chantilly, Virginia; Edgewater, Maryland; and New York City. The festivities include a full…

“The COVID pandemic has laid bare the vulnerability of some populations, as well as health systems and infectious disease threats,” said Balbus. (Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw / NIEHS)Aiming to build climate and health equity literacy…

The Orion spacecraft that traveled around the Moon and back during 2022’s Artemis I mission completed a different round trip when it recently returned to Ohio for testing. Now known as the Orion Environmental Test Article, the…

Aerial view of a fissure after two earthquakes hit Turkey on February 22, 2023.VCG via Getty Images The world's most powerful earthquakes happen in subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath the other. When these plates…

Earth Day, celebrated April 22, saw NIEHS researchers and facilities managers take home a slew of honors from the United States. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIEHS’s own program, the…

Looking to Launch Later this spring, the spacecraft will be shipped to NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, teams of engineers and technicians will carry out final…

Looking to LaunchLater this spring, the spacecraft will be shipped to NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There, teams of engineers and technicians will carry out final preparations with eyes on the clock. Europa Clipper’s launch…

FLORENCE, Italy, March 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The McWhorter Family Trust proudly announces its renewed collaboration with Aqua Panna Natural Mineral Water a hallmark of timeless elegance in the realm of fine mineral water. With…

Every day, more children discover they are living in a climate crisis. This makes several children feel sad, anxious, angry, powerless, confused and frightened about what the future holds. The climate change burden facing young…

“Turn off the lights, and move the world towards a better future for all,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said in a message for the event.The UN chief recalled that 2023 was the hottest in history, and…

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On March 23rd at 8:30 pm local time, WWF’s Earth Hour will return to unite millions worldwide in support and celebration of our planet. In an increasingly divided world struggling with the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss,…

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Geologists have found that the rocks of the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa are similar to those found in earthquake and volcanic regions in New Zealand. After thorough analysis, evidence of the earliest earthquakes on Earth…

March Puzzler March 11th, 2024 by Kathryn Hansen…

The planets are in a gravitational dance around the sunShutterstock/Johan Swanepoel The gravitational tug of Mars may be strong enough to stir up Earth’s ocean, shifting its sediments as part of a 2.4-million-year…

NEWS FEED Volunteers Sought to Join Concord Pond Cleanup April 13Date Posted: March 14, 2024 Prosecutors secure conviction against Jordan Ellerbe’s murdererDate Posted: March 14, 2024…

Saskatchewan Research Council to advance processing and commercialization of rare earth elements with support from the Government of Canada March 14, 2024 – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Prairies Economic Development Canada…

For Chen Chu MArch ’21, the invitation to join the 2023-24 cohort of Morningside Academy for Design Design Fellows has been an unparalleled opportunity to investigate the potential of design as an alternative…

When it comes to greenhouse gasses, people tend to zero in on CO2, which is responsible for the majority of global warming. But then there’s methane, which has driven about 30% of climate change, according to the IEA. It’s a big…

Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes in temperature, clouds, and wind. Clouds are ever changing and give you clues and information on what is happening in the atmosphere. Clouds can tell…

Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The March 2024 puzzler is shown above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us where it is, what we are looking at, and why it is interesting.  How to…

March Puzzler March 11th, 2024 by Kathryn Hansen…

Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes in temperature, clouds, and wind. Clouds are ever changing and give you clues and information on what is happening in the atmosphere. Clouds can tell…

Energy from the Sun warms our planet, and changes in sunlight can also cause changes in temperature, clouds, and wind. Clouds are ever changing and give you clues and information…

One afternoon last year, we sat in a village hall in Fiji chatting to residents about traditional ways of forecasting tropical cyclones. One man mentioned a black-winged storm bird known as “manumanunicagi” that glides above the…

NASA, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s SpaceX Crew-7 completed the agency’s seventh commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday after splashing down safely in a Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The international…

Dr. Michael Meyer We talk with Mendenhall Fellow and Research Geographer Dr. Michael Meyer about a recently released, freely accessible dataset…

Designing Earth observation systems is an…

Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, might we reach a time when it looked fundamentally different? The answer lies in some of the earliest extensive…

Key milestones for creating a planetary-scale Digital Twin Earth. Credit: Brocca L et al/Frontiers The water cycle looks simple in theory—but…

KEITH MASBACK:If you're a producer, if you're a writer, and you go out on the Internet, it's pretty easy to find Landsat. It's pretty easy to understand, at a very basic level, what it does, and I think they just probably drew some…

Global distribution of soil organic carbon change for eight models present in both Coupled Model Intercomparison Project and CMIP6. Credit: AGU Advances (2024). DOI:…

This $5 million funding opportunity supports USGS efforts to build a national mine waste inventory and characterize mine waste at sites across the Nation. This competitive opportunity is supported by investments from President Biden’s…