In this episode of Science Quickly, we give you a quick update on NASA’s Artemis II moon mission before digging into a move by the Trump administration that could endanger wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico. Later Andrea Thompson, senior desk editor for life science at Scientific American, joins host Kendra Pierre-Louis to discuss the alarmingly low snowpack in the western U.S. 

Recommended Reading:

<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/report/nasa-returns-to-the-moon/">NASA Returns to the Moon</a>

<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/april-1-snowpack-this-year-is-utterly-dismal/">April 1 is supposed to be peak snow. But this year’s western snowpack is utterly dismal</a>

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