After 17 elephants were killed by a speeding train in West Bengal, India, the nation's railways and environment ministries are considering deploying unmanned aircraft systems to help prevent such tragedies. After 17 elephants were killed by a speeding train in West Bengal, India, the nation's railways and environment ministries are considering deploying unmanned aircraft systems to help prevent such tragedies.
After a rigorous 10-month selection process involving 25 proposals from 24 states, the Federal Aviation Administration selected six unmanned aircraft system research and test site operators across the country.
The holes in the ozone layer over Antarctica in 2011 and 2012 are a study in contrasts. The 2011 hole ranked among the 10 largest recorded since the 1980s, whereas the 2012 hole was the second smallest.
Measurements from the European Space Agency's CryoSat satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice measured this autumn is about 50 percent higher than last year.
Courtesy of Esri, explore New Year's Eve celebrations around the world, ranging from concerts and pyrotechnic displays to historic traditions like plunges into bodies of water.
SkySat-1, the first of Skybox Imaging's planned constellation of 24 satellites, is one of the world's smallest satellites capable of capturing sub-meter Earth imagery.
Three years of CryoSat satellite observations show West Antarctic Ice Sheet losses of more than 150 cubic kilometers of ice annually, considerably more than when last surveyed.
The Arctic continued to shift to a warmer, greener state in 2013, according to the latest annual Arctic Report Card from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.
Many academic institutions are eager to cash in on the booming market for unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators expected to develop when UASs become legal to fly in U.S. airspace.
The European Space Agency's CryoSat satellite measured the storm surge from the recent North Sea storms, as high waters passed through the Kattegat Sea between Denmark and Sweden.
