NASA maps a week of Canadian wildfire smoke across North America
A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.
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A new NASA model visualization traces brown-carbon smoke from July 14 through July 20 as unhealthy air spread through major U.S. and Canadian cities.

Vietnamese authorities said 45 people had been rescued and 17 remained missing after the Khoi Nguyen 18 sank near the Spratly Islands.
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113 stories in this desk.More than 801,000 people were relocated in Guangdong as Noul moved inland, while Hong Kong authorities reported injuries and hundreds of flight cancellations.

NISAR’s newly available measurements will help researchers monitor land and ice movement, ecosystems and natural hazards, while an Antarctic image demonstrates the radar’s ability to reveal hidden structure.
Delegates meeting in Abuja are scheduled to adopt a regional policy declaration, choose the African Telecommunications Union’s next leadership and set its 2027–2031 program.
The Chengdu Statement calls for affordable digital access, AI skills, stronger defenses against online scams and support for secure open-source development across the Asia-Pacific.
A federal jury found a pharmacy owner guilty of conspiring to distribute controlled substances and five unlawful-distribution counts involving more than 335,000 high-dose oxycodone pills.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released annual 2025 state estimates and revised monthly data, offering a more detailed view of where employers were hiring and workers were leaving jobs.

A commercially operated spacecraft carrying a government-developed robotic system has launched on a mission designed to inspect, reposition and extend the lives of satellites in high orbit.

CMS asked state Medicaid directors to consider restricting coverage of mercury-containing fillings or encouraging alternatives, but the notice is guidance rather than a nationwide ban.

Microwave measurements from two close flybys found temperatures rising sharply just below Io’s surface, giving scientists a new view of how heat moves through the solar system’s most volcanic world.
The White House says more than 15 agencies will contribute funding, data and research facilities to 278 projects spanning health, energy, infrastructure and space science.
Mission leaders and four crew members will hold public briefings on August 3 ahead of a launch to the International Space Station targeted for no earlier than mid-September.
Full-time wage and salary workers earned a median $1,251 per week, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier compared with a 3.9 percent increase in consumer prices.
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