According to a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the influence of human-induced climate change is evident in the fact that lake-water temperatures are rising in…
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Climate change is impacting agriculture in a number of ways. Researchers use satellite data and computer modeling to monitor and mitigate these impacts. Credit: NASA/Earth…
A new study suggests that a million years ago, glaciers began sticking more persistently to their beds, triggering cycles of longer ice ages. Here, ice…
Tikal, the ruins of an ancient city, is one of the most famous archeological sites of Maya civilization. The discovery shifts researchers’ understanding of the…
Vice President Kamala Harris shares her enthusiasm, alongside Goddard Center Director Dennis Andrucyk and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, for the results of current satellite missions…
NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory…
An artist’s rendering of the conditions during the End-Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out nearly all life on earth. (Illustration by Victor Leshyk ‘The end-Permian…
[embedded content] Glaciers across the globe have lost over nine trillion tonnes of ice in half a century. How will glaciers look over the coming…
Roger Buick in 2004 at the Mount McRae Shale in Western Australia. Rocks drilled near here show “whiffs” of oxygen occurred before the Great Oxidation…
January 6, 2020 Iron-rich aerosols from the 2019-2020 fires fertilized huge phytoplankton populations in the far South Pacific. The catastrophic wildfires that scorched eucalyptus forests…
NASA is expanding research to lead the nation to a sustainable, net-zero carbon emissions aviation future. Credit: Vehicle image created by Scott Anders, Rich Wahls…
The Shetland Islands, an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, are featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021),…
Researchers’ ice core drilling camp on Colle Gnifetti in 2015. Two ice cores extracted from this area preserved a continuous one-thousand-year record of European climate…
Active flame front of the Zaca Fire, the second largest fire on record in California. U.S. Forest Service. Credit: John Newman Statistical modeling highlights predictive…
Most consumers want to make food purchases that are smart for their wallets, their health, and the environment. And while switching to a vegetarian or…
Hungry caterpillars are an underappreciated driver of carbon emissions. A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching…
Surface meltwater flowing towards the ocean through a channel in Greenland. Credit: Ian Joughin Global warming has caused extreme ice melting events in Greenland to…
[embedded content]This color-coded map in Robinson projection displays a progression of changing global surface temperature anomalies. Normal temperatures are the average over the 30 year…
The consumption of G20 nations was responsible for 78,000 premature deaths of infants worldwide. Credit: NIES Japanese and Australian researchers show the number of premature…
Detail images of fossils from the Ordovician Period outcrop on Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada. Credit: André Desrochers, University of Ottawa A team of researchers publish…