WASHINGTON, March 20 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary by independent researcher and analyst Natalia Hidalgo Martinez: * * * US Defense Demands are Making Europe Less Biddable The US has long wanted Europe to strengthen its defenses, but Washington may now wonder if its new-look partner will emerge as what it wished for. * Successive US administrations have called on their European counterparts to shoulder a greater share of their own defense. Those   more

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 24 -- The World Meteorological Organization issued the following news release: * * * Earth's climate swings increasingly out of balance The Earth's climate is more out of balance than at any time in observed history, as greenhouse gas concentrations drive continued warming of the atmosphere and ocean and melting of ice, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). These rapid and large-scale changes have occurred within a few decades but will have harmf  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Investigating Antarctic ice shelf melting with global navigation satellite systems * Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information. In an open-access study published Feb. 27 in Geophysical Research Letters, MIT Haystack Observatory scientists report using existing GNSS satellites, in conjuncti  more

BOZEMAN, Montana, March 24 -- Montana State University issued the following news: * * * Montana State NASA team headed to Europe for total solar eclipse By Diana Setterberg, MSU News Service At the invitation of NASA, a team of seven Montana State University students will travel to Spain this summer to fly stratospheric balloons while conducting sophisticated experiments during a total solar eclipse. This is the sixth time that MSU's Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project members will lead s  more