Month: August 2024
DHS Reports First Deaths in State This Year Due to West Nile Virus
Change Story: Dia D. Harris
Work Is Under Way on NASA’s Next-Generation Asteroid Hunter
NASA’s new asteroid-hunting spacecraft is taking shape at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Called NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor), this cutting-edge infrared space…
DHS to Mark International Overdose Awareness Day with New Investments to Reduce Drug Overdose Deaths
New NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions From Massive Canadian Fires
Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have…
Limited U.S. Threat from Mpox as Africa Faces New Outbreak
The World Health Organization this week declared the Mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This…