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…
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Direct air capture (DAC) has emerged as a bold technology to suck CO₂ from the sky and help reverse climate change. In 2025, three frontrunners – Climeworks, Heirloom, and Carbon Engineering – are racing to scale DAC with very different approaches. Each company’s system has unique technical designs, energy needs, costs, and partners shaping its…
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Climate Policy & Diplomacy In a landmark climate ruling, the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) declared that climate change poses an “urgent and existential threat” and warned that countries must “cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets” or risk breaching international law reuters.com reuters.com. The ICJ’s July 23 advisory opinion – hailed by…
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Global renewable energy generation saw significant growth and pivotal changes during May and June 2025. A surge in clean energy investments is driving record-high spending: the International Energy Agency (IEA) projected global energy investment to reach $3.3 trillion in 2025, with $2.2 trillion (about two-thirds) flowing into clean energy technologies (renewables, nuclear, storage) reuters.com reuters.com.…
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The European Commission’s freshly‑minted EU Space Act lands at the very moment low‑Earth orbit (LEO) is sliding from boomtown to bottleneck. Behind the headline pledge to fine careless satellite operators lurks a hard truth: more than 40 000 tracked objects, 7 500+ Starlink spacecraft alone, and upward of 120 million un‑tracked fragments already threaten satellites, science and Earth’s atmosphere. This report unpacks…
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The European Space Agency’s new BIOMASS mission has started to deliver on its dramatic promise: a 12‑metre, umbrella‑shaped radar antenna that peers through dense jungle canopies has sent back its first colour‑coded maps of the Amazon, Indonesia and even the bedrock of the Sahara—offering an unprecedented view of how much carbon the world’s forests really…
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ICESat-2 (NASA) launched September 15, 2018 on a Delta II rocket and carries the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), a photon-counting laser that operates from a ~481 km near-polar orbit (92°) with ground tracks repeating every 91 days to map ice sheets, sea-ice freeboard, glacier height, and forest canopy. CryoSat-2 (ESA) launched April 8,…
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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…
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