High-altitude pollution monitoring above Houston is painting an interesting picture of the city’s ozone troubles, data that’s collected using weather balloons and high-tech sensors launched from Rice ...

Killey Wangchuck, a 10-year-old boy, wanted to go to school so he could learn to read, but his parents are too poor to afford it. (Jonathan Harris) Bhutan is the only country in the world that uses a ...

In 1972, Bhutan's newly crowned leader pronounced a new measure of prosperity rather than the G.D.P.: Gross National Happiness. But how do you measure something so abstract? Jonathan Harris had the ...

Improving forecasting for a host of severe weather events may be possible thanks to a more comprehensive method for measuring the Earth's boundary layer depth. Improving forecasting for a host of ...

Air quality in urban areas can be horrendous. For instance, in New York and Los Angeles the air quality is consistently below federal safety levels. So, how do you know how good/bad the air in your ...

Caption: The Crab Nebula. Photo courtesy of NASA. Beginning Sunday, September 18, 2011 at NASA’s launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, space scientists from the University of New Hampshire will ...

Beginning Sunday, September 18, 2011 at NASA's launch facility in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, space scientists will attempt to send a balloon up to 130,000 feet with a one-ton instrument payload to ...