Farmers and animals struggle in drought-hit Botswana

A calf struggles neck-high in the stew-like mud, kicking frantically to make its way across the…

New MIT paper outlines plan to fight election interference

One of the most urgent threats facing our democracy and other democracies abroad is the ability…

Draft UN report warns of rising seas, storm surges, melting permafrost

The same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale…

Greece

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano captured this image of Greece from the International Space Station and shared…

Goodyear experiment

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano working on an experiment from Goodyear inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. He posted…

Working with the glovebox

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano works on an experiment inside the Life Sciences Glovebox. The portable glovebox…

A passing fancy

This Picture of the Week from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5307, a planetary nebula which…

Florida preps for an 'absolute monster': Hurricane Dorian

Unsure where Hurricane Dorian is going to land over Labor Day weekend, many Florida residents faced…

Capital flight: Indonesian move could prompt new environment crisis

Abandoning Jakarta for a new capital in Borneo won’t save the fast-sinking Indonesian megacity from disaster…

Rising seas threaten Egypt's fabled port city of Alexandria

Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, which has survived invasions, fires and earthquakes since it was founded…