Saturday, February 11th, 2023
In the 1970s, Nepal was facing an environmental crisis. Forests in Nepal’s hillsides were being degraded due to livestock grazing and fuelwood harvesting, which led to increased flooding and landslides. Without large-scale reforestation programs, a 1979 World...
Monday, January 30th, 2023
The synchronization was performed upon a request from the Israeli drone service provider ERELIS to conduct a pilot project of reservoir surveying with a UAV for ETZ HADEKEL Ltd. in Northern Israel. The surface of the reservoir...
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
On Jan. 5, 2023, Kilauea—Hawaii’s youngest and most active volcano—began erupting once again. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory saw a glow in summit webcam images indicating that the eruption had resumed. They detected...
Monday, December 5th, 2022
One year after Indonesia’s Mount Semeru unleashed a destructive eruption, the tallest and most active volcano on Java erupted again in early December 2022. Late on Dec. 3, 2022, a series of explosions from the summit crater...
Monday, November 21st, 2022
After an extremely wet October, southeast Australia continued to see heavy rainfall in November 2022. With soils already saturated and dams full, the latest storms have added to ongoing flooding across New South Wales and Victoria. In...
Friday, November 4th, 2022
Storms stronger than Tropical Storm Nalgae lashed the Philippines in 2022, but the extreme rainfall unleashed by Nalgae in late October 2022 spurred landslides and flooding, making it among the season’s deadliest and most destructive storms to...
Tuesday, October 25th, 2022
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) destroyed its Epsilon-6 rocket mid-flight on Oct. 11, 2022, resulting in the loss of eight commercial satellites that were included in the rideshare mission. JAXA sent out the self-destruct command to...
Monday, October 10th, 2022
In April 2022, New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and The Nippon Foundation announced a mission to discover the undersea impacts of the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai (HT–HH) volcanic eruption, which produced the biggest atmospheric...
Friday, September 23rd, 2022
In the southwest Pacific Ocean, a seafloor ridge that stretches from New Zealand to Tonga has the highest density of underwater volcanoes in the world. On Sept. 10, 2022, one of them awoke. In the days since,...
Monday, September 12th, 2022
An IAD, designed and developed by VSSC, has been successfully test flown in a Rohini sounding rocket from TERLS, Thumba on Sept. 3, 2022. The IAD was initially folded and kept inside the payload bay of the...
