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MODIS satellite image of Sierra mountains with relatively little snow.

Drought Research Shows Value of Both Climate Mitigation, Adaptation

09.08.2021
The American West will experience increased drought conditions in the future under both high and low greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, but the most severe drought conditions can still be avoided if future emissions are limited.
Montage of photos depicting how climate change is impacting agriculture in a number of ways.

NASA at Your Table: Climate Change and Its Environmental Impacts on Crop Growth

09.01.2021
The Earth is heating up. The effects of human-caused global climate change are becoming more and more apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, shifts in rainfall patterns and a rise in average temperatures. And these environmental changes touch every part of crop production.
Photo montage of cattle in field, drought map, and satellite image of land

Drought Makes its Home on the Range

08.20.2021
Drought is a natural part of the climate cycle, but as Earth’s atmosphere continues to warm due to climate change, droughts are becoming more frequent, severe and pervasive. Ranchers throughout the U.S. are using data from NASA and others to care for their herds and the land during drought conditions.
Photo of flooded street in San Pedro Sula on November 6, 2020.

After Historic Hurricanes Eta and Iota, NASA Helps Prep Central America for Disasters to Come

08.11.2021
After historic Hurricanes Eta and Iota, NASA is helping Central America prepare for future disasters.
Photo of Dr. Christian Braneon

NASA Scientist Christian Braneon Receives AXA Award for Climate Science

08.06.2021
Dr. Christian Braneon, who works for SciSpace LLC at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), New York City, is one of four winners of the AXA Award for Climate Science.
Landsat 8 image of the Afsluitdijk dam that separates a shallow inlet of the North Sea from freshwater Lake Ijssel in the Netherlands.

The Known Unknowns of Sea Level Rise

08.03.2021
The globe is warming, ice is melting, but that doesn't mean that an ocean will be returning to Vermont anytime soon.
Logo graphic Curious Universe podcast

Earth's Expanding Oceans

07.26.2021
NASA's "Curious Universe" podcast discussed climate-induced sea level rise with Gavin Schmidt and Craig Rye of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Brooke Medley of the Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory.
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Let’s Talk About Climate Change, with Gavin Schmidt

06.18.2021
Transcript of NASA "Gravity Assist" podcast interview with Gavin Schmidt.
Image of Hurricane Florence taken from ISS

NASA Scientists Available for Interviews Throughout Hurricane Season

06.02.2021
June 1 marked the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends Nov. 30.
La imagen del huracán Florence fotografiada por ISS

Científicas de la NASA disponibles para entrevistas durante la temporada de huracanes

06.02.2021
El 1 de junio marcó el inicio oficial de la temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico, que termina oficialmente el 30 de noviembre.
Plot of Global mean surface temperature anomalies

GISS and NCCS Contribute to CMIP6 International Climate Model Intercomparison Project

04.30.2021
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) contributed results from hundreds of the institute’s historical and future climate simulations to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). The GISS simulations ran on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer.
Blue marble image of Earth

NASA’s 2021 Virtual Earth Day Event – Online, April 21–24

04.13.2021
NASA’s 2021 Virtual Earth Day Event – Online, April 21–24 You’re invited to NASA’s 2021 Virtual Earth Day Event, held April 21-24. Registration is FREE and open to the public!
Model depiction of global carbon dioxide (CO2) levels

Direct Observations Confirm that Humans are Throwing Earth's Energy Budget off Balance

03.25.2021
Earth is on a budget – an energy budget. Our planet is constantly trying to balance the flow of energy in and out of Earth's system. But human activities are throwing that off balance, causing our planet to warm in response.
Inset from a NASA Blue Marble 2015 image

NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force

03.18.2021
NASA has joined the National Climate Task Force, which is outlined in an executive order issued by President Joe Biden.
Natural-color satellite image of fire and smoke across northern Africa

Reduced Fires Lead to Some Air Quality Improvements in Africa

03.14.2021
Changes in fire patterns have led to seasonal reductions in nitrogen dioxide pollution.
Photo of grasslands burning

NASA Study Finds Reduced African Grassland Fires Contribute to Short-lived Air Quality Improvements

02.25.2021
NASA researchers have found a small but unexpected decrease in air pollution over some parts of Africa despite growing use of fossil fuels in many countries due to development and economic growth.
Photo of Gavin Schmidt

NASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor

02.03.2021
In an effort to ensure effective fulfillment of the Biden Administration's climate science objectives for NASA, the agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York, to serve in the role in an acting capacity.
Global map of surface temperatures

2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows

01.14.2021
Earth's global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Suomi NPP satellite image of smoke and wildfires in North America

The Climate Events of 2020 Show How Excess Heat is Expressed on Earth

01.14.2021
By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA's analysis.
Global temperature anomalies for 2019 from the NASA GISS analysis.

NASA, NOAA to Announce 2020 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

01.12.2021
Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2020 during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 14.
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NCCS-Enabled Science Advances Being Presented at Online AMS Annual Meeting

01.06.2021
From more accurate hydrology forecasts to improved understanding of cyclone dynamics, science advances enabled by NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) resources are the subject of posters and virtual presentations at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS 101), being held online January 10–15, 2021.
Illustration of ISS in orbit

NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020

12.21.2020
"NASA has impressed the nation with our resilience and persistence during the pandemic," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
Map of US groundwater wetness percentile

The Drying U.S. West

12.14.2020
A serious drought has flared up across half of the United States—a familiar story for the past two decades.
Map showing the tracks of all 30 Atlantic storms in 2020

A Destructive Abundance

12.10.2020
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was supercharged, and not just in raw numbers.
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NCCS, CISTO, and Partners Present Advances at Virtual AGU Fall Meeting

12.01.2020
Researchers from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS), its parent Computational Information & Sciences and Technology Office (CISTO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and university partner organizations are participating in the Scientific Program at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, being held online 1–17 Dec 2020.

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