Eric Niiler
Science and Climate Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
Science/climate reporter at The Wall Street Journal @WSJ.
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wsj.com | Eric Niiler
Thomas Chouvenc, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, used field surveys, genetic analysis and historical data to track the spread of termites across Florida and nearby coastal states. His analysis was published last month in the journal Current Opinion in Insect Science.
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wsj.com | Eric Niiler |José de Córdoba
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wsj.com | Eric Niiler |José de Córdoba
Now, thanks to drought and other conditions, Mexico owes the U.S. more than 1.2 million acre-feet of water from the Rio Grande. Frustrated Texas farmers, whose crops are dying of thirst, are urging President Trump to pressure the country into providing water it says it doesn’t have. “I can only plant half of my farm because I don’t have the irrigation water that’s owed to me,” said Brian Jones, a fourth-generation farmer in Weslaco, Texas, who grows cotton, corn and sorghum on his 1,200-acre farm.
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wsj.com | Eric Niiler |Micah Maidenberg
President Trump’s nominee to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said he would push to send astronauts to Mars and return America to the moon. Jared Isaacman said at his Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday that he would support the Mars initiative, a challenging mission that has been promoted by President Trump, while also advancing the long-delayed Artemis moon-landing program. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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wsj.com | Eric Niiler |Micah Maidenberg
“We don’t have to make a binary decision of the moon versus Mars, or the moon has to come first versus Mars,” he said. “I think we could be paralleling these efforts.” Isaacman, a 43-year old aerospace entrepreneur who flew on private space missions with SpaceX in 2021 and 2024, described a Mars mission as a priority. He also said he wanted to maintain use of the International Space Station. “We need to make the most use of the space station while we have it,” Isaacman said.
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Trump's @NASA nominee @rookisaacman walks the line between heeding plans by Musk-to-Mars and Congress-to-Moon at his Capitol Hill nomination hearing today @wsj https://t.co/9uCypB9xA9
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NASA nominee @rookisaacman supports Artemis as the best way to get to the Moon (for now): "This is the plan we have now, and we've got to get this crew around the moon and the follow on crew to land on the moon." @WSJ @WSJscience
