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One bad rainstorm away from disaster: Why proposed changes to forestry rules won’t solve the ‘slash’ problem

EARTH
The biggest environmental problems for commercial plantation forestry in New Zealand's steep hill country are discharges of slash (woody debris left behind after logging) and sediment from clear-fell harvests. During the past 15 years, there have been...

Natural hazards don’t disappear when the storm ends or the earthquake stops—they evolve

EARTHQUAKES
Hurricane Helene lasted only a few days in September 2024, but it altered the landscape of the Southeastern U.S. in profound ways that will affect the hazards local residents face far into the future. Mudslides buried roads...

Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ASTRONOMY
There is a non-zero chance that somewhere in the nearby solar system is a rock that might kill us all. This stony assassin may well...

NASA puts biggest rocket pieces together for Artemis II moon mission

ASTRONOMY
The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over...

NASA to launch three rockets from Alaska in single Aurora experiment

ASTRONOMY
Three NASA-funded rockets are set to launch from Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, in an experiment that seeks to reveal how auroral...

A NASA spacecraft will make another close pass of the sun

ASTRONOMY
A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through the sizzling solar atmosphere. The Parker Solar Probe made...

NASA successfully acquires GPS signals on moon

ASTRONOMY
NASA and the Italian Space Agency made history on March 3 when the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) became the first technology demonstration to...

Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the moon will need better boots. Here’s why

ASTRONOMY
The U.S.'s return to the moon with NASA's Artemis program will not be a mere stroll in the park. Instead it will be a...

NASA eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin to cut Mars rock retrieval costs

ASTRONOMY
NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of returning Martian...

NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth

ASTRONOMY
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

ASTRONOMY
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within...

Image: NASA’s Terra satellite captures 2015 eclipse shadow

ASTRONOMY
During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse was visible from parts of Europe, and a partial solar eclipse from northern...

NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun

ASTRONOMY
NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe made history Tuesday, flying closer to the sun than any other spacecraft with its heat shield exposed to scorching...

NASA solar probe to make its closest ever pass of sun

ASTRONOMY
NASA's pioneering Parker Solar Probe is poised to make its closest-ever approach of the sun on Christmas Eve, a record-setting 3.8 million miles (6.2...
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