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Environment Oct 12, 2026

What 2024's record-breaking rainfall says about the next El Niño

Though strong El Niños have occurred only four times in as many decades, 2024's intense El Niño is already getting a sequel. New UCLA research shows that 2024 broke the record for extreme rainfall, with 40% of that increase ...

Space Exploration Oct 12, 2026

NASA demonstrates next-generation heat shield technologies

NASA is taking an unusual approach to testing heat shields that can keep astronauts safe as they return from missions to the moon and Mars: taking out the trash.

Plants & Animals Oct 12, 2026

A migration running out of time? New Zealand banded dotterels reach Australia later each year

On open beaches, gravel riverbeds and bare volcanic plateaus, banded dotterels—or double-banded plovers, as they are called in Australia—are a familiar and much-loved sight across New Zealand, the only country where these ...

Space Exploration Oct 12, 2026

The Preliminary Lunar Science Report for Artemis II is out

On April 1, 2026, the crew of the Artemis II mission launched into space atop NASA's Space Launch System (SLS). Roughly 3 1/2 hours after launch, the rocket's upper stage separated from the Orion spacecraft (Integrity), and ...

Environment Oct 10, 2026

Wildfire smoke shuts schools in Amazon's biggest city

The largest city in the Brazilian Amazon, Manaus, closed public schools on Friday as smoke from hundreds of wildfires blanketed the metropolis amid an intensifying El Niño event.

Environment Oct 9, 2026

Mountaineer: 'Tenzing biopic made me wonder what he would think if he could return to the mountain today'

Seventy-three years ago, Tenzing Norgay stood on top of Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibetan, which roughly translates as "Goddess Mother of the World."

Astronomy Oct 9, 2026

NASA advances LISA mission contributions with new test telescope

NASA has taken the next step in the process of developing a new all-glass telescope for the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission, a space observatory designed to detect ripples in space-time called gravitational ...

Earth Sciences Oct 9, 2026

Kīlauea's swelling summit helps scientists forecast lava fountain eruptions

Episodic lava fountaining is a rare volcanic behavior in which repeated, hours-long bursts of molten lava and gas are spewed from volcanic vents, with quiet pauses lasting days to weeks between episodes. These lava fountains ...

Earth Sciences Oct 9, 2026

Global wildfires decreased during the COVID-19 lockdown, but some fires intensified without human intervention

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought human activity to a standstill around the world in the first half of 2020, wildfire incidents also declined by more than 12%. A new study published in Cell Reports Sustainability reveals ...

Ecology Oct 9, 2026

Walking through flames: Orangutans rescued in Indonesia fires

The orangutan clings to the top of a mostly leafless tree in Indonesia's portion of Borneo as waves of thick smoke from the forest fires burning below waft over her.

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