Earlier this year the The peace of a Florida neighborhood was disturbed when a piece of junk from the international space station crashed through a house. This was followed in May by a 90-pound piece of a SpaceX Dragon ship crashing into a camping resort in North Carolina, raising the question: are space agencies doing … Read more
Vehicle emissions in California have steadily declined over the years as environmental policies and advancing technology clean up traffic exhaust. Yet, since 2010, microscopic particulate matter and ground-level ozone have stubbornly refused to decline, thanks to an increase in “secondary sources.” Some of these sources include the trees and shrubs that make our city streets … Read more
Thousands of satellites are currently in low Earth orbit, and some will eventually become defunct and fall back into our planet’s atmosphere. When they reenter the atmosphere, satellites leave behind a trail of chemicals that eat away at the ozone layer. A new study warns that the growing number of internet satellites have contributed to … Read more