When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore an expansive range of infrared astrophysics topics.
NASA's Roman Mission Will Probe Galaxy's Core for Hot Jupiters, Brown Dwarfs
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Potent Atmospheric Rivers Douse the Pacific Northwest
In mid-January 2021, the Pacific Northwest of North America was soaked by several episodes of heavy rainfall, leading to widespread flooding and landslides.
Why Projects to Adapt to Climate Change Backfire
Many internationally-funded projects aimed at combating the impacts of climate change can make things worse - by reinforcing, redistributing or creating new sources of vulnerability in developing countries, according to a review led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and the University of Oxford.
Irrigation Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa Are Consistently Falling Short of Their Promises
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don’t measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists.
A Large Number of Gray Whales Are Starving and Dying in the Eastern North Pacific
It is now the third year that gray whales have been found in very poor condition or dead in large numbers along the west coast of Mexico, USA and Canada, and scientist have raised their concerns.
Wet and Wild: There’s Lots of Water in the World’s Most Explosive Volcano
There isn’t much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides an impressive population of brown bears and the most explosive volcano in the world.
