TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) – Recently, the National Science Foundation awarded Biosphere 2’s Landscape Evolution Observatory with a $ 3.5 million grant to study the growth of life in certain landscapes, in particular those affected by fires or volcanic eruptions. The Landscape Evolution Observatory or LEO is the world’s largest laboratory …
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In a major discovery, mineralogists identified an unprecedented mineral in a diamond unearthed from a mine in Botswana, Africa. Small black specks seen in diamond excavated from deep in the lithosphere, about 410 miles (660 km) below the earth’s surface, shed light on the planet’s unexplored secrets that remain hidden …
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DAVINCI + will send a one meter diameter probe to brave high temperatures and pressures near the surface of Venus to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to near the surface of land that could have been beyond a continent. During its final kilometers of free-falling descent (pictured here), …
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The thickness of the fragile lithosphere – the outer part of a planetary body that fails by fracturing – plays a key role in the geological processes of that body. The properties of a planet and its host star can influence this thickness, and the potential range of these properties …
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NASA wants you to get excited about the nightmarish world next door. This spring, the agency announced it would develop two new missions to explore Venus in the early 2030s. One of them, called VERITAS (short for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), would be in orbit around …
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Title: Has Venus ever been habitable? Constraints of an interior-atmosphere-redox couple Evolution model Authors: Joshua Krissansen-Totton, Jonathan J. Fortney, Francis Nimmo Institution of the first author: University of California, Santa Cruz Status: Published in the Planetary Science Journal [open access] Where did the water go? (And was that there to …
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About € 2 million has been spent since 2016 to clean up rhododendron in Killarney National Park. The ongoing battle to tackle the invasive alien plant was the subject of a dedicated conference organized by the South Kerry Development Partnership in collaboration with the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve of Kerry. The …
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The Coho’s first seven trips south were well filled with snowbirds. As the world came to a halt in March 2020, Angela and Don Ritter rushed out of Arizona as fast as their 40ft camper van would have taken them. Fleeing north to Canada was like walking through a lifeless …
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Today, at a time when climate change has become unmistakably apparent, more businesses and governments are committing to become carbon neutral, net zero and carbon positive. The African Conservation Development Group (ACDG) is one of the companies working to preserve and market the Gabonese rainforest. With their current 50-year logging …
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The Defenders are affectionately known as the Marvel Non-Team, a bunch of heroes who came together and who stuck together. The team has undergone several roster changes over the years and while not as popular as some of the Marvel teams, they have had some rather powerful members on their …
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