Environment News 6 June 2025

Oregon Scrambles to Save Green Projects as Trump’s Tax Credit Axe Falls

Trump’s Deadline Puts Clean Energy in Peril In Washington D.C., a dramatic policy U-turn has thrown the U.S. renewable energy industry into a race against time. In mid-2025, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping measure – informally known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act – that ends or shrinks federal tax credits for clean energy much sooner than expected propublica.org. This law set hard end-dates for the generous incentives that wind and solar developers rely on. Under the Act, projects can still qualify for the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) or Production Tax Credit (PTC) if they break ground by

9 October 2025

Moon Mission Milestone, Autism Risk Shock & Europe’s Climate Alarm – Science News Roundup (23–24 Sept 2025)

Space & Astronomy Artemis II Moon Mission – Countdown to History: In a major update from NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Sept 23, officials confirmed that Artemis 2 – the first crewed mission in NASA’s lunar return program – remains on schedule for no later than April 2026, with an earliest launch target of Feb 5, 2026 space.com. The 10-day mission will send four astronauts around the Moon, the first humans to venture beyond low-Earth orbit in over half a century. “We together have a front-row seat to history: we’re returning to the Moon after over 50 years,” exclaimed Lakiesha Hawkins, a senior NASA exploration

24 September 2025

Environment · Health · Science News · Space · Technology

Vanishing Insects, Rusty Rivers & NASA’s Next Moonshot – Science News Roundup (Sept 22–23, 2025)

Key Facts Climate & Environment Insects Vanishing Even in Pristine Habitats Mounting evidence indicates the insect biodiversity crisis has reached even untouched ecosystems. A long-term study in the Colorado Rockies found flying insect abundance has collapsed by ~72% over 20 years in a subalpine meadow with minimal human impact sciencedaily.com. Higher summer temperatures were tightly correlated with the decline, implicating climate change rather than local land use. “Insects have a unique…vulnerability to environmental change,” warns biologist Keith Sockman, who led the study sciencedaily.com. He notes that mountain ecosystems host many endemic species which “may be in jeopardy if the declines shown

23 September 2025

Environment · Insects · Rivers · Science · Space Exploration

Energy Guzzlers: Ranking Countries by Per Capita Energy Use in 2024

Key Facts & Highlights: Global Energy Consumption at a Glance (2024) The world’s energy appetite has never been larger. Global primary energy consumption reached an unprecedented level in 2023–2024, driven by post-pandemic economic activity and extreme weather energy needs. According to the Energy Institute’s review, consumption hit about 620 exajoules in 2023 – up 2% from the previous year dieselnet.com. This growth pushed energy-related CO₂ emissions over 40 billion tonnes for the first time dieselnet.com, a troubling milestone for climate observers. Fossil fuels still dominate the global energy mix, accounting for 81.5% of primary energy use dieselnet.com. Oil and coal

16 September 2025

Data Analysis · Energy · Environment · Global Rankings · Sustainability

Glowing Planets, Seaweed Invasions & “Sleeper” Cancer Cures: Top Science Breakthroughs (Sept 2–3, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Baby Planet Caught in the Act: A landmark discovery in astronomy came from an international team that directly imaged a newborn exoplanet still in the process of formation. The planet, dubbed WISPIT 2b, is a gas giant roughly 5 million years old located around a young Sun-like star scitechdaily.com. Observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile revealed WISPIT 2b as a faint dot within a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk of dust and gas ts2.tech scitechdaily.com. This makes WISPIT 2b the first unambiguous photo of a planet forming inside a ringed disk – essentially a baby planet still glowing from its

3 September 2025

Astronomy · Environment · Innovation · Medical Breakthroughs · Science News

Global Science Breakthroughs: Space Feats, “Universal” Antiviral & Earth’s Extreme Alarms (Aug 24–25, 2025)

SpaceX launched over 5,000 pounds of cargo to the ISS on Aug. 24, 2025, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon capsule autonomously docking on Aug. 25 during NASA’s 33rd commercial resupply mission. Starship’s 10th flight test was scrubbed on Aug. 24, 2025, 30 minutes before liftoff due to a ground systems issue, with a retry planned as soon as Monday. The brightest and closest fast radio burst ever recorded, nicknamed RBFLOAT, originated in a galaxy 130 million light-years away in Ursa Major and was traced to the outskirts of galaxy NGC 4141 using CHIME. Columbia University researchers developed

25 August 2025

Environment · Health · Research · Science · Space

Hidden Moon, Reversed Aging Protein, and Antarctic Tipping Point – Science Breakthroughs (Aug 22–23, 2025)

Astronomers observed SN 2021yfj, a stripped-down supernova whose progenitor shed hydrogen, helium, and carbon before exploding, leaving an exposed silicon/sulfur core (Nature, Aug 20, 2025). NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted a previously unknown inner moon of Uranus, about 6 miles (10 km) across, bringing the planet’s known moons to 29. NASA and IBM unveiled Surya, an AI foundation model trained on nine years of Solar Dynamics Observatory data that forecasts solar flares up to two hours in advance and improves prediction benchmarks by 16%. OSIRIS-REx Bennu samples show Bennu is a mosaic of dust from near the Sun, interstellar

23 August 2025

Breakthroughs · Environment · Health · NYSE:IBM · Science · Space

Space Shocks, Medical Miracles, and Climate Wake-Up Calls – Science News Roundup (Aug 19–20, 2025)

Space Exploration & Astronomy Medical Research & Biotechnology Environmental Science Climate Change Artificial Intelligence Energy Physics Sources: The above information is drawn from recent press releases, journal publications, and reports dated August 19–20, 2025, including NASA announcements science.nasa.gov science.nasa.gov, ScienceDaily and Sci-News summaries sciencedaily.com sci.news, university press releases sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com, Reuters newswire reports reuters.com, and peer-reviewed study findings sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com. All content has been verified for accuracy as of August 20, 2025.

20 August 2025

Climate Change · Environment · Health · Medicine · Science News · Space

Interstellar Comet, ‘Trojan Horse’ Cancer Cure & AI’s Hidden Carbon Cost – Science Highlights (Aug 18–19, 2025)

Space & Astronomy Health & Medicine Biology & Ecology Physics Chemistry Climate Science Technology & AI Environmental Science Sources: The above summaries are based on reporting and press releases from sources including ScienceDaily, SciTechDaily, NASA, Space.com, Nature journals, and other outlets scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com space.com scitechdaily.com discovermagazine.com sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com sciencedaily.com sciencedaily.com scitechdaily.com scitechdaily.com news.mongabay.com news.mongabay.com. Each news item is linked to its original source for further reading.

19 August 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Astronomy · Environment · Medicine · Science

Eyes in the Sky: How Satellites Are Revealing Our Changing Climate

Radar altimeters on TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich have provided a global mean sea level record since 1992, showing a rise of about 3.3 millimeters per year and roughly 10 centimeters over 30 years. Arctic summer sea ice extent has declined by about 12% per decade since the 1980s, with the Arctic minimum shrinking from about 7.5 million km² in 1980 to 4.4 million km² in 2023. GRACE and GRACE-FO gravity missions have revealed that Greenland and Antarctica are losing hundreds of billions of tons of ice each year, contributing to sea level rise. NASA’s PACE mission,

6 June 2025

Climate Change · Environment · Satellites · Science · Technology

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