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NASA Returns to Arctic Studying Summer Sea Ice Melt
2024.07.26
What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic, and a new NASA mission is helping improve data modeling and increasing our understanding of Earth's rapidly changing climate. Changing ice, ocean, and atmospheric conditions in the northernmost part of Earth have a large impact on the entire planet. That’s because the Arctic region acts ...
El Niño Exits
2024.07.15
The natural climate phenomenon contributed to upheavals in temperature and rainfall patterns across the globe.
Groundwater Declines in the U.S. Southwest
2024.06.25
Record snowfall has not been enough to offset groundwater losses amid long-term drying and a heightened demand for the resource.
NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss
2024.06.17
Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.
Sea Ice Takes a Spin Down the Coast
2024.06.12
Ice fragments from Greenland and the Arctic form elaborate swirls as they are swept south.
Humboldt Glacier’s Demise
2024.06.07
Venezuela is the first postglacial nation in the Andes, as its last substantial patch of ice is now considered too small to flow under its own weight.
NASA Mission Flies Over Arctic to Study Sea Ice Melt Causes
2024.05.31
To explore factors contributing to sea ice melt, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland this summer
Antarctic Ice Shelf Spawns Iceberg A-83
2024.05.24
The Brunt Ice Shelf lost a large wedge of floating ice, the third sizeable iceberg to calve from the shelf in recent years.
Is the Wilkins Ice Shelf Weakening?
2024.04.06
Signs of structural weaknesses may signal a shift in this Antarctic ice shelf’s stability.
Scenes from the Polar Night
2024.04.02
Landsat satellites have begun regularly acquiring images of ice at the poles during the winter, with enlightening results.
Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows; Arctic Ice Continues Decline
2024.03.25
Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year in a row. The recurring loss hints at a long-term shift in conditions in the Southern Ocean, likely resulting from global climate change, according to scientists at NASA and th
The Arctic is Getting Rainier
2024.03.19
The Arctic and North Atlantic oceans have seen an increasing number of days when precipitation falls as rain, not snow.
Antarctic Sea Ice at Near-Historic Lows
2024.03.15
Sea ice coverage reached its seasonal minimum in February 2024, tying with 2022 for the second-lowest extent in the satellite record.
NASA Invites Media to 61st Annual Goddard Space Science Symposium
2024.03.14
Media are invited to attend the 61st annual Goddard Space Science Symposium (formerly the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Symposium), which will take place March 20-22, 2024, at the Brendan Iribe Center on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The symposium will also be streamed online.
Taking a Bite Out of Pi
2024.03.14
A cycle of rapid advance and retreat at Sortebræ, a glacier in eastern Greenland, built pi-shaped tongues of ice before they later retreated.
Antarctica Unpinned
2024.02.27
New research shows that while some Antarctic ice shelves have been thinning since at least the 1970s, widespread thinning accelerated in the 1990s.
Contributions of the DC-8 to Earth System Science at NASA: A Workshop
2023.12.11
Jointly organized by the NASA History Office and the Earth Science Division, this workshop seeks to document the important contributions of airborne campaigns implemented on NASA’s DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory. The workshop will be a combination of keynote talks, panel discussions, and roundtables.
How NASA Deepened Our Understanding of Earth in 2023
2023.12.05
In 2023, The NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and the NASA Science Managed Cloud Environment (SMCE) provided mission-critical, tailored computing resources to enable research and accelerate scientific discoveries that deepen our understanding of Earth and better prepare for its changing climates.
NASA, Partners Launch US Greenhouse Gas Center to Share Climate Data
2023.12.04
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, and other United States government leaders unveiled the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center Monday during the 28th annual United Nations Climate Conference (COP28).
Antarctic Iceberg Sails Away
2023.12.01
Stuck on the seafloor for decades, Iceberg A-23A now freely drifts northward toward warmer, iceberg-destroying waters.
Erebus Breaks Through
2023.11.29
The fiery and icy upper reaches of the Antarctic volcano pierced through a canopy of clouds.
Quelccaya Ice Cap Then and Now
2023.11.27
Ice cores and satellite images are helping preserve the history of a disappearing ice cap in the Peruvian Andes.
A Brief Iceberg–Island Encounter
2023.09.30
After passing the Antarctic Peninsula, Iceberg D-30A grazed the much smaller Clarence Island, spun around, and drifted north.
Arctic Sea Ice 6th Lowest on Record; Antarctic Sees Record Low Growth
2023.09.25
Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 19, 2023, making it the 6th lowest year in the satellite record
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