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Record Rainfall Floods Midwest
2024.06.26
Rivers burst their banks, inundating homes and farmland in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa.
The Timeless Moors of Yorkshire
2024.06.24
Rolling hills of peaty soil store thousands of years of plant matter in northeastern England.
Fires Char South-Central New Mexico
2024.06.22
Wildland fires burned tens of thousands of acres near mountain communities including the village of Rudioso.
Tracking Forest Cover in Belize
2024.06.19
Decades of satellite data paint a picture of how forests in this Central American country are changing.
NASA Sets Launch Coverage for NOAA Weather Satellite
2024.06.18
NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) mission. The two-hour launch window opens at 5:16 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 25, for the satellite’s launch.
The Shrinking Selva Maya
2024.06.18
The largest tropical rainforest in Mesoamerica is shrinking as pastures and croplands spread across Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.
Summary of the 2023 GEDI Science Team Meeting
2024.06.18
The 2023 Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Science Team Meeting (STM) took place October 17–19, 2023, at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), in College Park, MD.
Early Fires in Brazil’s Pantanal
2024.06.14
Drought helped spread intense, early-season blazes in one of the world’s largest wetlands.
PACE Celebrates National Ocean Month With Colorful Views of the Planet
2024.06.07
What do you give to an ocean that has everything? This year, for National Ocean Month, NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite— is gifting us a unique look at our home planet. The visualizations created with data from the satellite, which launched on Feb. 8, are already enhancing the ways that we view our seas and skies.
Satellite Data Suggest U.S. Methane Emissions Underestimated
2024.06.05
Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas may be higher than previously thought, especially from landfills.
Iceland Eruption Goes Another Round
2024.06.04
A volcanic fissure on the Reykjanes peninsula came alive again with voluminous, vigorous flows.
A Greenhouse Boom in China
2024.05.31
Researchers are using satellites to track a spreading trend in agriculture—the use of greenhouses.
Tornado Damage in Greenfield
2024.05.30
The destructive tornado destroyed homes, downed wind turbines and power lines, snapped trees, and shredded roofs.
Smoke and Fire in British Columbia
2024.05.14
Unusually early and intense fires are spreading rapidly amid drought and high winds.
Hurricanes Have Left Their Mark on Louisiana’s Wetlands
2024.05.13
Scientists have been tracking how strong storms have eaten into the Gulf state’s coastline.
Water Levels Plunge in Philippine Reservoir
2024.05.11
Searing temperatures and little rain reduced water levels of Pantabangan Lake, one of the country’s largest reservoirs.
Return of the GEDI: Space Station Instrument Returns to Forest Monitoring
2024.05.04
That’s no moon, that’s a space station! The return of NASA’s GEDI (Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation) is underway, as the agency’s very own “lightsaber” will soon be back to measuring forests in three dimensions after it was reinstalled on the International Space Station April 22.
AI for Earth: How NASA’s Artificial Intelligence and Open Science Efforts Combat Climate Change
2024.04.18
As extreme weather events increase around the world due to climate change, the need for further research into our warming planet has increased as well. For NASA, climate research involves not only conducting studies of these events, but also empowering outside researchers to do the same. The artificial intelligence (AI) efforts spearheaded by the..
Tech Today: Taking Earth’s Pulse with NASA Satellites
2024.04.17
Natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, floods, and tornados can dramatically change the surface of Earth to the point where alterations are visible in space. Changes driven by human actions and interventions, such as mining and deforestation, are also visible in satellite imagery. For over 50 years, NASA’s Landsat satellites have recorded our planet’s changing surface. […]
NASA’s PACE Data on Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Now Available
2024.04.11
NASA is now publicly distributing science-quality data from its newest Earth-observing satellite, providing first-of-their-kind measurements of ocean health, air quality, and the effects of a changing climate. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite was launched on Feb. 8, and has been put through several weeks of in-orbit testing of the spacecraft and instruments to ensure […]
NASA’s Lola Fatoyinbo Receives Royal Geographical Society Prize
2024.04.09
Dr. Lola Fatoyinbo, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, received the Esmond B. Martin Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Prize on April 8 in London. The prize, according to the RGS, recognizes “outstanding achievement by an individual in the pursuit and/or application of geographical research, with a particular emphasis on […]
Fresh Flows Spread Across Iceland
2024.04.04
The latest fissure eruption on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula was the largest of four recent bouts of activity near the town of Grindavík.
Fire in Southern Mexico
2024.04.03
More than 100 active fires burned across the country in late-March 2024, including this blaze near the border of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
Aquaculture in the Tumbes River Delta
2024.03.30
Rectangular ponds for shrimp farming line the coast of northern Peru.
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