Five new universities also join consortium

Scientists from the High Altitude Observatory will be onsite at Hovenweep National Monument

Emissions associated with mining operations in Africa’s Copperbelt can be quantified from space, according to new research. Mining for copper and cobalt in Africa has rapidly increased, the latter in response to growing global demand for electric vehicles, laptops, smartphones, and other devices that rely on lithium-ion batteries, the vast majority of which contain cobalt.

An extraordinary new dataset of high-resolution weather simulations that span more than four decades over the continental United States is now available to the Earth system science community.

Simultaneous outbreaks of large wildfires will become more frequent in the West, putting major strains on efforts to fight the blazes.