Nepal hit by worst wildfires in almost a decade
Nepal is experiencing its worst fire season in almost a decade, officials said Tuesday, as huge blazes rage across the country's forests, engulfing the Himalayan nation in a shroud of brownish haze.
Nepal is experiencing its worst fire season in almost a decade, officials said Tuesday, as huge blazes rage across the country's forests, engulfing the Himalayan nation in a shroud of brownish haze.
Environment
Apr 6, 2021
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Fashion's biggest firms are making slow progress in meeting promises to improve their environmental and social impact, according to a damning sustainability report released Monday.
Environment
Mar 22, 2021
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NASA is improving a flight software system to help create and certify essential software for the lunar Gateway.
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2021
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There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched.
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2020
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Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that fruit flies that spent several weeks on the International Space Station (ISS)—about half of their lives—experienced profound structural ...
Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2020
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Three NASA crew and one Japanese astronaut are set for launch aboard a SpaceX rocket Saturday, bound for the International Space Station in the program's first six-month routine mission since the United States resumed crewed ...
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2020
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Four astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Sunday for SpaceX's second crew launch, coming up next weekend.
Space Exploration
Nov 8, 2020
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Space is hard, the saying goes, and conducting science in space presents challenges of its own. Few researchers have had to overcome hurricanes and earthquakes, though, just two of the hurdles a team of chemists in Puerto ...
Materials Science
Oct 14, 2020
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The commander of Boeing's first astronaut flight has pulled himself off the crew so he's on Earth—not at the International Space Station—for his daughter's wedding next year.
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2020
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SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars.
Space Exploration
Aug 5, 2020
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