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Science & Climate2026-07-05 · Jennifer Rae Montoya
The Grand Canyon is open. That is the easy part of the story, and it is the part summer travelers tend to hear first. The harder part is what the park and the weather service are s
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-07-04 · Peta Laurel McKenna
Answer-First: A new AI-powered wildfire detection system from NOAA, called the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS), is being hailed as a "game changer" after it provided critical…
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-07-03 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
The answer-first version: the Houston toad’s 2026 recovery push is not just “more eggs.” It is a field test of whether egg reintroductions, private-land habitat work, and better…
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-07-03 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
NASA says the mission to raise the altitude of its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is underway after LINK, a robotic servicing spacecraft built by Katalyst Space, launched Friday…
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-07-02 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
NOAA Fisheries’ newest Northeast whale-rescue update is not a feel-good animal story. It is a public-safety warning: if a whale is entangled, report it…
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-07-02 · Peta Laurel McKenna
The weather story for the holiday weekend is blunt: a dangerous
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-06-29 · Silvia Grace Halvorsen
Across Britain, ponds are quietly vanishing. More than half have disappeared since the early 1900s, according to historic map analysis by researchers at…
Read the story →Science & Climate2026-06-29 · Peta Laurel McKenna
The sky right now The big action this week has already happened. SpaceX flew two missions out of Florida and California over the weekend — a Starlink…
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