Environment/Science

NASA begins work to build a quieter supersonic passenger Jet

California, Mar 1 (IBNS) The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA's award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. more

NASA Technology transfer roadshow stops in Texas

California,Mar 1 (IBNS) NASA’s Technology Transfer program will host events on March 9 and 10 in the El Paso, Texas, area and Las Cruces, New Mexico, to discuss how students and entreprene ...

NASA tests life-detection drill in earth’s driest place

California, Feb 27 (IBNS) In a harsh environment with very little water and intense ultraviolet radiation, most life in the extreme Atacama Desert in Chile exists as microbial colonies under ...

Tropical fires fuel elevated Ozone levels over western pacific ocean

New York, Feb 25 (Just Earth News/IBNS) A diverse team of atmospheric chemists, meteorologists and modelers, including scientists from NASA, has traced the origins of mysterious pockets of ...

NASA partners on air quality study in East Asia

California, Feb 25 (IBNS) NASA and the Republic of Korea are developing plans for a cooperative field study of air quality in May and June to advance the ability to monitor air pollution acc ...

NASA Global Hawk flies Pacific storm mission

California, Feb 23 (IBNS) Extreme weather predictions on the West Coast could become more accurate with help from NASA's remotely piloted Global Hawk. Flights to look at Pacific storms as th ...

NASA sees category 5 Southern Pacific Tropical Cyclone hit Fiji

California, Feb 23 (IBNS) NASA satellites provided data on Tropical Cyclone Winston before and after it made an historic landfall in eastern Fiji.

Harsh Vardhan, Y.S. Chowdary release Seismic Microzonation reports for Delhi , Kolkata

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IBNS) Union Minister for Science & Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan released Seismic microzonation reports for Delhi and Kolkata in New Delhi on Monday.

Fiji: UNICEF on stand-by with supplies and personnel in wake of Cyclone Winston

New York, Feb 22 (Just Earth News/IBNS) In the wake of Tropical Cyclone Winston that struck the island nation of Fiji Saturday night, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it is o ...

El Niño passed peak, but UN weather agency warns ‘not to lower guard’ as impacts continue

New York, Feb 19 (Just Earth News/IBNS) The 2015-2016 El Niño, one of the strongest on record, has passed its peak, but its humanitarian and economic impacts will continue for many months ...