emergency preparedness
At ground zero for climate change, traditions and livelihoods hang in...
People across the Arctic are facing extreme weather, unpredictable hunting seasons, unstable ice and other effects of global warming. What can they do?
Help for farmers…from outer space
NASA launched the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite, designed to collect data on soil moisture around the globe.
Learning from Ebola
Though West Africa, with help from the international community, has made progress containing the Ebola virus outbreak, a long, hard fight remains to end...
Ten years after one of the world’s deadliest tsunamis, are we...
The entire planet vibrated on December 26, 2004, as an earthquake erupted in the Indian Ocean. The destruction — 1.6 million people displaced, another...
Here’s the plan to save humanity from killer asteroids
Asteroids hit the Earth every day. Most of these rocks and chunks of ice are dust-sized and are harmless to our planet. But some...