WiSE - Women in Science and Engineering

NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER will fly by Mercury for the third and final time on Sept. 29.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will host a media teleconference at noon PDT on Thursday, Sept. 24, to discuss new research results from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Environmentalists succeeded in blocking a 5,130-acre solar power farm that would have risen in the Mojave Desert.

The world watches a coal-fired power plant’s effort to capture and bury some of the carbon dioxide it creates.

The nation’s marine and Great Lakes shores are administered by a hodgepodge of federal, state or other agencies with often-conflicting goals.

Farm waste, the biggest polluter of American rivers, is largely unregulated by many of the laws designed to prevent pollution and protect drinking water.

In Alabama, stimulus funds are ammo in the battle against a pest on the scale of kudzu.

A judge restored protections for about 600 bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, citing a decline in their food supply caused by climate change.

The global recession as well as government actions were cited as factors in the falloff in greenhouse gases.

Dr. Slobodkin, a co-author of a seminal paper informally known as “The World Is Green,” is credited with helping to transform ecology by using quantitative data to test models of nature.

NASA is targeting Tuesday, Oct. 27, for the flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, pending successful testing and data verification.

As nations gather for a major summit meeting on climate change, none want to take the lead in fighting for significant international targets.

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has selected the Aerospace Corporation of El Segundo, Calif., for the Specialized Engineering Evaluation and Test Services contract.

NASA scientists are marveling over the extent of ruffles and dust clouds revealed in the rings of Saturn during the planet's equinox last month.

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 23, to preview the third and final flyby of Mercury by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft known as MESSENGER.

Electronic devices are the fastest-growing source of power demand in the world, but there is resistance to efficiency.

Denmark’s minister of climate and energy will host United Nations-sponsored global climate treaty negotiations in December.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Borlaug developed high-yielding crop varieties that helped to avert famines worldwide.

NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, known as LCROSS, will culminate with two lunar impacts at approximately 4:30 a.m. PDT on Oct. 9.

NASA has assigned the crew for the last scheduled space shuttle mission, targeted to launch in September 2010.