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WHAT'S NEXT:? Our natural environment is under ever-increasing threat. Landscape and ocean adaptation plus stabilizing biodiversity strategies will play an important role in maintaining global food productivity as climate changes. Evidence is mounting that any economic strategy that ignores carbon pollution will impose tremendous costs on the global economy and will result in fewer jobs and less economic growth over the long term. The global market for commercial "Earth observation" data is expected to hit $3.5 billion by 2024. Battles over environmental regulation could become particularly pointed in the coming years.

[New] The global population is still increasing and will eventually stabilize, as some critics doubt that food production, due to lower yields from global warming, can support the global population.
[New] For the last two weeks, different parts of the country including Kathmandu Valley have remained shrouded in thick haze and harmful levels of air pollution, posing a serious risk to public health.
[New] Major changes are expected in the space environment due to the imminent launch of NewSpace (sometimes Space 2.0) systems, particularly large low Earth orbit constellations that will change the space operations environment.
[New] Africa's urban dwellers are increasingly vulnerable to the risks related to demographic pressure such as the impacts of climate and environmental change, and social, political and economic hazards.
[New] The UK is in a global race to secure the rare-earth elements that are crucial for fighter jets, wind turbines and electric cars amid fears that China could use its monopoly of them as a weapon.
[New] None of the large dinosaur-killer asteroids known to Spaceguard pose a near-term threat of collision with Earth.
[New] Since emissions are free in the U.S. and many other countries, a Canadian carbon price could prompt industry to relocate to jurisdictions with weaker environmental standards - eliminating Canadian jobs and increasing global emissions.
[New] Understanding environmental justice is key to the struggle for a safe environment for the present generation and for future humans that will inhabit the Earth.
[New] The US Food Safety Modernization Act requires food safety systems to include microbiological testing and verification to demonstrate that food is produced and stored in a safe environment and preventive controls are functioning as expected.
[New] Air-scooping electric propulsion could extend the lifetime of very low Earth orbit satellites by providing periodic reboosting to maintain orbital altitudes using a solar array-powered space vehicle augmented with electric propulsion and ambient air as a propellant.
[New] Private 5G MEC from AWS and Verizon brings ultra-low latency to dedicated, closed, on-premises environments for use cases such as autonomous mobile robots, quality assurance, and hazard alerting.
[New] Saudi Arabia's initiatives will raise vegetation cover, reduce carbon emissions, combat pollution and land degradation, and preserve marine life.
[New] The global significance of drylands is going to increase due to climate change, as forecasted increases in aridity worldwide will expand the global extent of drylands by up to 23% by the end of this century.
[New] Venezuela is among the 10 most biodiverse countries in the world and home to 13% of the world's bird species, meaning that the Maduro regime's activities pose a threat to global biodiversity.
[New] Climate change, a direct cause of many core disasters across the globe continues to increase the impacts and risks of disasters such as wildfires and floods.
[New] By restoring the domestic nuclear fuel supply chain, with its high standards in the areas of health, safety and environment, the U.S. will reduce over-dependency on foreign sources while supporting the generation of significant baseload, carbon-free energy from American nuclear power plants.
[New] The goal of the USAID Regional Water and Vulnerable Environment activity is to strengthen regional capacity to manage shared water resources and mitigate environmental risks in the Syr Darya and Amu Darya river basins.
[New] Climate change, biodiversity loss, and rapidly declining soil fertility are critically damaging the health of people and the planet, dislocating societies, and threatening food systems around the world.
[New] After the 31-day helicopter test campaign, the Perseverance rover will continue on in pursuit of its primary goal to identify, collect, and seal rock samples for return to Earth by a future mission.
[New] The propulsion module core consists of two stacked cylinders that together stand almost 10 feet (3 meters) high and hold the propulsion tanks and 16 rocket engines that will propel Europa Clipper once it leaves Earth's atmosphere.
[New] Environmental issues barely made a blip ahead of elections taking place Sunday, while critics fear that 10 billion euros ($11.8 billion) in EU green transition funds could fall prey to Bulgaria's widespread corruption.
[New] China's controlled environment system will have a lot of automation and lower construction costs because of the massive scale and lower costs in China.

Last updated: 10 April 2021

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