Tracking Turtles via Drone

While many students returned from the semester break with stories of vacations taken or jobs worked, Boston College freshman Branick Weix had something unusual and inspiring to share: his weeklong trip to Costa Rica to help researchers track endangered sea turtles....

Tracking Kilimanjaro's Shrinking Ice

Tracking Kilimanjaro's Shrinking Ice

Cold, dry air at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro has sustained large ice fields for more than 10,000 years, but trends beginning more than a century ago suggest its peaks soon may be ice-free.

Tracking California's Wildfire Smoke From Space

Tracking California's Wildfire Smoke From Space

The August Complex Fire and others this fire season have been sending far-reaching plumes of wildfire smoke into the atmosphere that worsen air quality in California and beyond. Predicting where that smoke will travel and how bad the air will be downwind is a challenge, but Earth-observing satellites can help.