On April 3, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration made history in Houston, Texas, when it announced the four astronauts who will take part in its latest mission, Artemis II. Among the ranks will be the first woman and first Black astronaut to ever embark on a lunar expedition, TIME reported.
Since the James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Dec. 25, 2021, it has allowed the curiosity of the human mind to travel through space. The JWST has now been in space for almost nine months and has not disappointed with its remarkable discoveries. According to NASA’s webpage about the telescope’s first images, scientists over the past few months have been able to acquire “full-color, … seemingly three-dimensional” pictures using the JWST. The clarity of its images is a result of the telescope’s multiple sensors and four-foot long mirror which allow it to observe galaxies that were formed 13.5 billion years ago.
The new James Webb Telescope saw its first star on Feb. 11, according to NASA. The still blurry photo will allow the telescope’s segmented mirrors to align and capture never before seen images of our universe. Marcia Reike, a professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and member of the Webb team, spoke to the excitement this news brought in a recent press statement,” Reike said. “The entire Webb team is ecstatic at how well the first steps of taking images and aligning the telescope are proceeding. We were so happy to see that light makes its way into [the Near Infrared Camera].”
April 8, 2021
Flooding in Australia has forced over 20,000 people to evacuate and over 150 schools to close down.
The journal Geophysical Research Letters published a new study that shows summer in the Northern Hemisphere is lengthening. As a result of climate change, by the end of the century, summer could extend by nearly six months.
Pope Francis made an appeal for humanity to face climate change by quoting Shakespeare, writing, “To see or not to see, that is the question.”
Human activity is currently responsible for degrading two-thirds of Earth’s tropical rain forests. Read more about it here.
A NASA study has confirmed that human activities are shifting Earth’s energy budget, as more energy from the sun is being trapped than can escape back into space.
A recent experiment found that coffee pulp, left over from the coffee making process, can aid in the regrowth of forests.
The Biden administration announced an expansive offshore wind plan that would install enough wind turbines on the East Coast to power 10 million American homes.
How is climate change affecting major league baseball? Read this article to find out.
March 25, 2021
Many companies are advocating for the profitability of conservation, sustainable fishing and carbon sequestration.
Research has found that farmed fish are consuming more vegetables than wild fish stocks.
Flooding in Australia has forced about 20,000 Australians to evacuate and has caused the closure of over 150 schools.
Carbon markets haven’t felt the economic impacts of COVID-19.
In the face of political turmoil, COVID-19 and economic crisis, Lebanon is becoming more ambitious in its climate policy with the goal of cutting carbon emissions 20 percent by 2030.
A new NASA satellite has been designed to track natural disasters, melting ice and other climate change-related effects.
A new study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters indicates that summer in the Northern Hemisphere is lengthening. In response to global heating, the end of the century could see the extension of summer by nearly six months.
NASA has recently joined the White House National Climate Task Force.
Tropical rainforest used to cover 13 percent of Earth’s surface. Today, 34 percent of that area is gone while an additional 30 percent is degrading.
Human activity has a significant impact on the Earth’s atmosphere. The disastrous consequences of changes to the atmosphere have been widely researched regarding carbon emissions, but changing cloud formation and holes in the ozone layer play significant roles as well. Clouds are responsible for simultaneously reflecting the sun’s heat and trapping it in the atmosphere. The ozone serves as a protective layer in absorbing ultraviolet radiation from the sun. It is predicted that as climate change progresses, clouds will diminish in frequency, allowing more solar energy to reach the Earth.
Feb. 18, 2021
Air pollution has been confirmed to result in 1 in 5 deaths annually around the world.
A NASA research team is going back to researching cloud formations after being impeded by the COVID-19 pandemic. They are working to understand how variations in aerosol particles from human and natural sources affect clouds.
A winter storm hit Texas, leaving many in frigid temperatures without power and electricity.
Elon Musk announced a four-year-long carbon capture contest that will award $100 million funding for the development of carbon removal technology.
U.S. government scientists said that America has the potential for a carbon-free future by 2050 if projected changes to wind and solar power are made.
Disha Ravi, a climate activist in India, was placed in jail for sharing information about the farmers’ protest with Greta Thunberg.
The U.K. government put a stop to construction plans for a deep coal mine after accusations of hypocrisy in regard to its current climate action arose.
Protests began in northern Minnesota to halt the progress of Line 3, an oil pipeline from the U.S. to Canada.
