Published on Jul 4, 2021
‘We have much to gain together by partnering to develop new green technologies,’ the top US diplomat to Australia, Mike Goldman, says in a video message. The chargé d’affaires at the United States embassy in Canberra adds: ‘As partners, we have a shared obligation to protect our planet by taking the climate crisis head on, just as we’ve taken on every crisis over the past 70 years’
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Dig into the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which suspended Chinese immigration to the U.S. and blocked Chinese immigrants from citizenship.
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The Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) will “provide near-hourly microwave observations of a storm’s precipitation, temperature, and humidity,” according NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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