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Landsat 8 satellite image of flooding and burn scars in eastern Australia

Extreme Rain Douses Fires, Causes Floods in Australia

02.13.2020
A season of extremes in eastern Australia took another dramatic turn in mid-February 2020.
Image of Landsat 9 satellite with science instruments

Landsat 9: The Pieces Come Together

01.09.2020
Two science instruments are now attached to the satellite spacecraft, bringing the mission one step closer to launch.
Image taken by the Terra satellite and enhanced by using correction reflectance bands on the MODIS (Moderation Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) highlight in brighter colors the areas on Kangaroo Island that have been burned by the bushfires in late December 2019 and early January 2020.

Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass

01.07.2020
NASA's Terra satellite provided before and after imagery that showed the extent of the fires that have been ravaging Australia's Kangaroo Island. Kangaroo Island lies off the mainland of South Australia, southwest of Adelaide. About a third of the island is made up of protected nature reserves which are home to native wildlife which includes sea lions, koalas and diverse and endangered bird species, including glossy black-cockatoos which have been brought back from the brink of extinction over the last two decades.
Map of estimated annual winter (October to April) emissions of carbon dioxide for Arctic permafrost regions from 2003 to 2017.

Permafrost Becoming a Carbon Source Instead of a Sink

01.03.2020
Warming in the Arctic is causing soils to decompose more rapidly, even during winter. Now, estimates of winter carbon dioxide loss indicate that it can offset carbon gains during the growing season.
Link to Paper in Nature Climate Change (Natali et al., 2019, doi:10.1038/s41558-019-0592-8).
Image of Jupiter

NASA Highlights Solar Mission, Jupiter Cyclone at AGU Meeting

12.05.2019
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Dec. 9-13 in San Francisco.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Lateiki Island

All Eyes on Tonga’s Kingdom of Volcanoes

11.27.2019
An undersea eruption at Lateiki Island in late October 2019 has brought new life to an older island in the Tonga chain.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Brazil's Caguan River and surrounding area

Making Sense of Amazon Deforestation Patterns

11.22.2019
Decades of satellite data make it possible to map how deforestation has evolved over time.
Black and white satellite image of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai

Making a Connection in the Kingdom of Tonga

11.20.2019
Against the odds, the landmass that exploded and oozed into existence in early 2015 is now nearly five years old.
Air-LUSI takes off aboard an ER2 out of NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Palmdale, CA for an airborne campaign to measure the Moon from Nov. 13 – 17, 2019.

New Moon-Seeking Sensor Aims to Improve Earth Observations

11.14.2019
A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon’s brightness and eventually help Earth observing sensors make more accurate measurements.
Image from aircraft of Nome, Alaska, on August 5, 2017

Arctic Shifts to a Carbon Source due to Winter Soil Emissions

11.08.2019
A NASA-funded study suggests winter carbon emissions in the Arctic may be adding more carbon into the atmosphere each year than is taken up by Arctic vegetation, marking a stark reversal for a region
Link to Paper in Nature Climate Change (Natali et al., 2019) discussing the study results
Photo of Doug Morton

Douglas Morton: Monitoring the Earth for a Brighter Future

10.08.2019
Douglas Morton, chief of the Biospheric Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, uses satellite data to track how ecosystems are changing over time.
Landsat 8 satellite image of the Peraleda de la Mata coast.

Drought Reveals Lost “Spanish Stonehenge”

09.19.2019
The Dolmen de Guadalperal resurfaced after five decades underwater.
Aqua satellite image of fire and smoke in Borneo

Smoke Blankets Borneo

09.18.2019
Fires burning in peat deposits in Indonesia release gases and particles that have consequences for public health and the climate.
Aqua satellite image of fire and smoke in New South Wales

Drought Exacerbates Australian Fires

09.14.2019
Several years of dry conditions have set the stage for a fierce fire season in several southeastern states.
Map of carbon emissions from fires from Jan. 1, 2003, through Dec. 31, 2018.

Satellite Data Record Shows Climate Change's Impact on Fires

09.10.2019
While every fire needs a spark to ignite and fuel to burn, it's the hot and dry conditions in the atmosphere that determine the likelihood of a fire starting, its intensity and the speed at which it spreads. Over the past several decades, as the world has increasingly warmed, so has its potential to burn.
Terra satellite mage of the Serengeti plains

Circling the Serengeti

09.09.2019
These African plains host the largest natural animal migration in the world.
Landsat 8 composite image of Helheim, Fenris and Midgard glaciers

Landsat Illustrates Five Decades of Change to Greenland Glaciers

08.28.2019
Greenland's Helheim Glacier, along with its neighbors, have changed significantly in the last five decades, as illustrated by comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019.
Landsat 8 satellite image of fire burning norht of the Paraguay River near Puerto Busch

Fire Burns in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil

08.27.2019
Since the beginning of August 2019, NASA satellites have observed fires burning near the border of Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil.
Terra satellite natural-color image of fires burning near Novo Progresso, Brazil

Uptick in Amazon Fire Activity in 2019

08.26.2019
Satellites have detected an increase in fire activity early in the 2019 dry season in the southern Amazon
Image of campaign aircraft on tarmac

Philippine Airborne Campaign Targets Weather, Climate Science

08.26.2019
NASA's P-3 science aircraft soared above the Manila skyline on Monday to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation into how smoke from fires changes clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
TIRS2 in cleanroom with technicians

New Landsat Infrared Instrument Ships from NASA

08.23.2019
This month, TIRS-2 successfully passed the stringent 12-week testing process at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Smoke from the fires raging in in the Amazon basin has created a shroud that is clearly visible across much of the center of South America.

Amazonian Fires Continue Shrouding South America in Smoke

08.22.2019
Smoke from the fires raging in in the Amazon basin is clearly visible across much of the center of South America.
Photo of dead Jack Pine trees, still standing

Boreal Forest Fires Could Release Deep Soil Carbon

08.21.2019
Increasingly frequent and severe forest fires could burn generations-old carbon stored in the soils of boreal forests, according to results from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) funded by NASA’s Earth Science Division.
Global map of Active Fires

Building a Long-Term Record of Fire

08.21.2019
Scientists have answered some important questions about how fires vary around the world and are changing over time.
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer image of Canary Islands showing extent of fire

Large Wildfire on Gran Canaria Prompts Evacuations

08.20.2019
The island of Gran Canaria, the second most populous island in the Spanish archipelago's Canary Islands, is currently experiencing a large wildfire whose origins are still under investigation.
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