by Tira Shubart | 5 Jun 2025 | Europe, Japan, Politics, Space, United States
Some 10,000 U.S. soldiers protect weather balloons and navigation and spy satellites from threats from above. It isn’t the only space force out there. Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on 4 October 2023. (Credit: Thomas Traasdahl/Ritzau Scanpix) Not many military...
by Tira Shubart | 27 May 2025 | Environment, Government, Technology
As the planet heats up and extreme weather events get more common, the United States slashes funding to its weather services. What does that mean for the world? Thunderstorm over Watson Lake in Prescott Arizona. (Credit: Bob Larson/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
by Tira Shubart | 28 Mar 2025 | Decoders, Europe, History, Human Rights, Journalism, Politics
As the threat of tyranny rises across the world, the United States has pulled funding of Radio Free Europe and other networks that broadcast dissident voices. Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s...
by Tira Shubart | 5 Feb 2025 | Decoder Replay, Environment, Science, Space, Technology
Technology depends on rare earth minerals, but their extraction can harm our planet. Asteroids offer a plentiful source of valuable elements. In the future, mankind will go to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter to mine for the vast wealth that is within the...
by Tira Shubart | 9 Jan 2025 | History, Journalism, Politics, United States
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter will be buried today. Our correspondent remembers meeting the man who put personal integrity over politics and profits. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter in Wiesbaden, Germany 21 January 1981, greeting the U.S. hostages released...