CANBERRA, Australia, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Australian Academy of Science issued the following agency statement on April 16, 2024: * * * Australia is failing to halt, slow, or reverse the loss of biodiversity. We have one of the worst records of species extinctions of any continent, with nearly 50% of the world's known and historically recorded mammal extinctions. In that context, we welcome the announcement that the Australian Government will seek to legislate the Environment Protectio  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 18 -- The California Academy of Sciences issued the following news release: The California Academy of Sciences is thrilled to announce the inaugural cohort of the California Creators for Nature program, launched this year to initiate digital and in-person conversations about nature, climate, environmental justice, and similar topics. Selected from more than 130 candidates, our inaugural California Creators for Nature cohort consists of: * Chloe Stowell Colon,   more

WASHINGTON, April 18 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release on April 17, 2024: Today, advocates with the Hillsborough Affordable Energy Coalition requested that the Hillsborough County Commission intervene on behalf of their constituents against a recently filed TECO rate hike that, if approved, would raise the average bill to $160.93 a month in January 2025, an increase of 62% since January 2019 -- well over twice the rate of inflation over that period. At today's meeti  more

LAUREL, Maryland, April 18 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: NASA has confirmed its revolutionary Dragonfly (https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/) rotorcraft mission to Saturn's organic-rich moon Titan. The decision, announced April 16, allows the mission to progress to completion of final design, followed by the construction and testing of the spacecraft and its science instruments. "Dragonfly is a spectacular science mission with broad com  more

MUNICH, Germany, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * The Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials will explore methods for producing, utilising, and recycling materials in a climate-friendly way * * * Understanding and managing global change is a task to which the Max Planck Society is committed. This is also reflected in the reorientation of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Eisenforschung. The Dusseldorf-based institute has been investigating how to  more

PASADENA, California, April 18 -- The Planetary Society issued the following statement on April 17, 2024: * * * The Planetary Society, the world's largest independent space advocacy organization, released the following statement in regard to NASA's recent announcement of a new path forward on the Mars Sample Return program: This week, NASA announced it will be soliciting input from the broader commercial and civil space community to reduce the cost, complexity, and risk of the Mars Sample Ret  more