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Portrait of Stephen Cash, a smiling man in a dark suit and red-and-blue striped tie against a gray background

NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

NASA named retired Marshall engineer Steve Cash director of its Huntsville center, effective Monday, ending 13 months of acting leadership. The announcement says nothing about why the post stayed acting or what

October 17, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket climbing away from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in a cloud of exhaust

Blue Origin Plans More Florida Launch Pads for a Rocket Idle Since April

Blue Origin said Friday it will add launch pads in Florida for a New Glenn rocket that has not flown since April, without saying where they will go. The FAA is still weighing whether the existing pad can handle 50

October 16, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

A white bleached branching coral beside pink and golden healthy colonies on a shallow Gulf of Aqaba reef, with a pier and mountains above the waterline

44% of Reef Corals Are Threatened, and the Count Ends Before the Heat

A Nature paper published Thursday finds 340 of 774 assessable reef-building coral species threatened, the same

Snow-covered summit of Avachinsky volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula rising through a ring of cloud, seen from orbit

Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

Japan's weather agency issued an early warning for a magnitude 9.9 earthquake that did not exist,

NASA Suomi NPP VIIRS satellite image of South Asia at night showing lights of India Pakistan Bangladesh Sri Lanka

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Two peer-reviewed studies published Monday — one in Environmental Science & Technology, one in PNAS — pin 706 Belt and Road construction projects across 105 countries with more than 130 million tonnes

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Bathymetric map of Mariana Trench produced by University of New Hampshire and NOAA showing deep western Pacific seafloor with Challenger Deep

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

An executive order signed Thursday strips commercial-fishing protections from the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments — over half a million square miles of Pacific Ocean that had been

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Earth Observatory sea surface height anomaly map of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean during El Nino formation June 2023

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

NOAA's National Weather Service declared El Niño formation on June 11, 2026, with a 63 percent probability of becoming a very strong event by November — only the fifth such occurrence since

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

Astronaut photograph from the ISS of Hurricane Milton Category 4 over the Gulf of Mexico October 8 2024

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

An E&E News report finds the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration, congressional Republicans and Republican attorneys general are running a multi-front, decade-long campaign against climate-attribution science — the field that ties

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Terra MODIS satellite image of dense smog over the North China Plain February 2011

China Built More Coal Capacity in 2025 Than in Any Year of the Last Decade. Energy Security Was the Argument.

A Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air and Global Energy Monitor report finds China commissioned 78 gigawatts of new coal-fired power in 2025 — the largest annual addition in a

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA Landsat 8 satellite image of Bhadla Solar Park in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan India

Solar Just Overtook Gas Power in Asia. The 16 Terawatt-Hour Gap Is China’s.

A Carbon Brief analysis of Ember data finds Asia generated 1,727 terawatt-hours from solar in the year to April 2026, narrowly above the 1,711 it pulled from gas — the first time

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA TEMPO satellite image showing high morning nitrogen dioxide and reduced afternoon levels along the New York-Washington corridor on May 18, 2026

Climate Treaties Don’t List These Pollutants. A New Science Paper Says They Cause 15% of Global Warming.

An Ilissa Ocko–led paper in Science finds carbon monoxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds and black carbon are responsible for roughly 15 percent of human-driven global warming, yet none of them appear on

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

NASA satellite view of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting south into the United States

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

A University of Iowa study in Science finds wildfire smoke has reversed about four years of US ozone-pollution gains, with surface smog rising 4 percent since 2015 after an 11 percent decline

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A wildfire burns through forest in New Mexico, the kind of dry, beetle-stressed landscape that increasingly turns into catastrophic fire

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

A new state and federal survey of 14 million acres of New Mexico forest found tree mortality tripled in 2025, with beetle-killed conifers up 211 percent. The pinon-juniper system that defines the

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

A water aqueduct under drought conditions, illustrating the kind of supply stress now reaching the East Coast as Virginia, North Carolina and Connecticut tighten restrictions

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

Virginia hit 38 percent extreme drought this week, Durham is enforcing mandatory cuts from Monday, and Connecticut's governor has declared a Stage 2 advisory for three counties. The Mid-Atlantic is starting to

June 13, 2026

Climate·News·Science

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NASA Hands Marshall Center to a Shuttle-Era Safety Chief After 13 Months

Blue Origin Plans More Florida Launch Pads for a Rocket Idle Since April

44% of Reef Corals Are Threatened, and the Count Ends Before the Heat

Japan Warned of a Magnitude 9.9 Quake. The Real One Was a 6.9 in Kamchatka

China’s Belt and Road Has Built 130 Million Tonnes of Carbon Into 105 Countries. Two New Studies Put the Bill on Steel.

Trump Just Opened the Pacific’s Marine Monuments to Industrial Fishing. Half a Million Square Miles Are No Longer Off-Limits.

NOAA Just Made El Niño Official. There Is a 63 Percent Chance It Becomes ‘Very Strong’ — and 2027 the Hottest Year on Record.

The Science That Pins Hurricanes on Fossil Fuels Is Under Coordinated Assault. The Scientists Are Organising a Defence.

China Built More Coal Capacity in 2025 Than in Any Year of the Last Decade. Energy Security Was the Argument.

Solar Just Overtook Gas Power in Asia. The 16 Terawatt-Hour Gap Is China’s.

Climate Treaties Don’t List These Pollutants. A New Science Paper Says They Cause 15% of Global Warming.

Wildfires Have Erased Four Years of America’s Clean-Air Progress, and the Trend Is Still Climbing

New Mexico’s Trees Are Dying Three Times Faster, and the Beetles Are Doing the Work the Climate Started

The East Coast Drought That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen Here Triggers Mandatory Cuts in Three States

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Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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