Every year, as April ripens into warmth and the trees shake off the last hesitation of winter, the world pauses, briefly, imperfectly, to remember something it too often forgets. Earth Day, observed on April 22, is not a celebration in the traditional sense. It is more like a moment of reckoning, a quiet knock on […]
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Artemis II’s astronauts capture Earth’s beauty as they leave it behind
The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet´s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew´s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century. The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth […]
NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon
NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up the inaugural mission of the US agency’s new Artemis lunar program 50 years to the day after Apollo’s final moon landing. The gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, carrying a simulated crew […]
Earth-Like Planet found with deeper Oceans and two Suns
Astronomers have found an Earth-like, bigger planet that could have deeper oceans and two suns. The discovery was made by an international team of researchers guided by the University of Montreal, using ground-based telescopes and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The team came up with simulations to show how TOI-1452b is actually an […]
PM’s aide says Himalayas become ‘hottest region’ on earth
ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam on Friday said that Pakistan, which was undergoing a heatwave phenomenon at the moment, was recorded as the hottest region in the world. He was addressing a webinar on “Children and Ecosystem Restoration” jointly organized by UNICEF and the Ministry of Climate […]
Park Geun-hye is ‘metal’, Xi Jinping is ‘earth’
Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye was predicted to have good ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping, but less so with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. And South Korea should have reached the semi-finals at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, instead of being eliminated in the group stages. Why? Because South Korea is “tree” […]
What if an asteroid was about to hit Earth? Scientists ponder question
Here’s a hypothetical: a telescope detects an asteroid between 100 and 300 meters in diameter racing through our solar system at 14 kilometers per second, 57 million kilometers from Earth. Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027. What should we do? It’s this potentially […]
NASA turns its focus to earth with aid partnership
NASA is using its satellites to solve humanitarian challenges in some of the most fragile places on earth under a landmark partnership with aid agency Mercy Corps. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration will use its wealth of data to help communities at risk from climate change and natural disaster predict the dangers and […]
Pakistan joins 180 nations in observing Earth Hour
On Saturday 8:30 pm local time, WWF-Pakistan joined more than 180 nations around the world to celebrate Earth Hour, the global movement united by millions of people worldwide to show their commitment to protect the planet. Landmarks across the country switched off their lights in solidarity for the planet and joined WWF-Pakistan’s call to combat […]
Future of Humanity
One of the many miracles of nature is that life first appeared on Earth 4 billion years ago, a relatively short time after the planet was formed some 4.5 billion years ago. That first life form was very primitive, compared with what we see around us today. Earth cooperates when we use resources economically with […]