Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up.
Flight tracking data may soon come from space with the design of a new aviation surveillance system that will rely on satellites in Earth orbit.
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- Google is thirsty.
- Its latest environmental report shows a 20% jump in water consumption in its data centers.
- As the AI arms race heats up, it may only get worse.
Google just published its 2023 environmental report, and one thing is for certain: The company's water use is soaring.
The prominent astrophysicist and musician Brian May is co-authoring a three-dimensional atlas of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, an 85-million-ton hunk of rock orbiting the Sun.
A satellite in geostationary orbit ran into some trouble when the device meant to position its solar arrays towards the Sun malfunctioned, preventing it from being fully charged.
As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test.
As the planet warms, mosquitoes are slowly migrating to higher places — and bringing malaria to populations not used to dealing with the potentially deadly disease.
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The climate crisis is raising summertime temperatures, and the sky-high heat is straining electrical grids and healthcare system