Late payments have a way of rippling across an economy: a temporary lull in patronage at a cafe leads to a pile of bills and choices to be made about which ones get paid first.
Satellites are an invisible part of the vital infrastructure we all rely on day-to-day, from navigating with GPS, receiving weather alerts, and calling home, but they are poised to become an even more important part of our increasingly connected world.
Each degree of warming increases the total water vapor that air can hold by an average of seven percent. For communities and businesses affected by urban and flash flooding events, the increased deluge comes at enormous costs.