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The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health. The move would ...

Scientists from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with Spanish institutions, have developed an algorithm that ...

The satellite is fully functional, providing valuable data, and may soon be burned up in our atmosphere out of choice.

Among the Florida plants sent were rare native orchid seeds, such as the night-scented orchid, which grows only in hammocks and swamps, and the Jingle Bell orchid, closely related to the ghost orchid.

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The 1990 Global Change Research Act requires a national climate assessment every four years and directs the president to establish an interagency United States Global Change Research Program.