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Map of NDVI Anomaly indicating where vegetation on the Iberian Peninsula was less healthy than usual (brown) in spring 2023.

Spain Browned by Drought

05.23.2023
Unseasonable heat and meager rainfall parched the world’s largest olive oil producing region in spring 2023.
Maestro Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic in the world premier performance of Henry Dehlinger’s “Cosmic Cycles,” Thursday, May 11, 2023, at Capital One Hall in Tysons, Va. “Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony” is a collaboration between composer Henry Dehlinger, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and the National Philharmonic that features a fusion of music and video in seven multimedia works on the Sun, Earth, Moon, Planets, and Cosmos. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

NASA Goddard, National Philharmonic Explore Cosmos Through Imagery, Music Collaboration

05.15.2023
Awe-inspiring NASA visuals combined with the might of a live symphonic orchestra last week in “Cosmic Cycles,” a multimedia collaboration among the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the National Philharmonic, and composer Henry Dehlinger.
Image acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite showing flooding adjacent to the Lamone river on May 4, 2023.

A Deluge in Italy

05.11.2023
Heavy rains caused destructive flash flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region.
Image of Qinghai Lake acquired by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 on July 22, 2022

Shifting Sand Spits

05.10.2023
The shape of China’s Qinghai Lake changes in lockstep with climate.
The image above (right), acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, shows flooded farm fields in the of Tulare Lake lakebed on April 30, 2023.

Tulare Lake Grows

05.05.2023
Flooding in the California lakebed continues to spread as spring brings snowmelt from the Sierras.
Landsat 8 satellite image of southern Malawi showing extensive cropland damage from flooding

Freddy Brings Lean Times to Malawi

05.04.2023
Hunger is on the rise in Malawi after the tropical cyclone devastated crops in the southern part of the country.
Photo of Vice President Harris and South Korea President Yoon shaking hands at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Visit NASA Goddard

04.26.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol saw firsthand how NASA studies climate change during a visit to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, this afternoon.
Photo of VP Harris at GSFC in 2021

VP Harris, South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol to Visit NASA Goddard

04.24.2023
Vice President Kamala Harris and Republic of Korea (ROK) President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Tuesday, April 25, to see firsthand the agency’s climate change work. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup will join them on tour.
Terra satellite image of snowpack in Sierra Nevada mountain range

A Boom Year for Sierra Nevada Snow

04.20.2023
Atmospheric rivers delivered a huge amount of snow to the California mountain range.
Image of part of Earth from space

NASA Celebrates Earth Day with Earth Science in Action

04.12.2023
This Earth Day, you can join us in person and online to see how our observations help us monitor the planet’s vital signs and share them with scientists and citizens around the world.
Landsat 9 satellite image of Lago La Niña, an ephemeral lagoon that fills when rains are unusually heavy and the nearby Piura and La Leche rivers flood.

Warming Water and Downpours in Peru

04.10.2023
As coastal waters heat up, torrential rains and floods are swamping the northern part of the country.
False-color Terra satellite image of Owens Lake

A Surge of Floodwater For Owens Lake

04.01.2023
The normally dry lakebed is wet again after an atmospheric river unleashed torrential rains.
Collage of 6 NASA climate-related images

NASA Releases Agency Climate Strategy

03.29.2023
NASA has been working to better understand our home planet from the unique vantage point of space since the first TIROS satellites launched in the 1960s. Today, with more than two dozen Earth-observing satellites and instruments, it’s clearer than ever that our planet is an interconnected system.
Visualization showing water features on New York’s Long Island – shown as bright pink splotches. Purple, yellow, green, and dark blue shades represent different land elevations, while the surrounding ocean is a lighter blue. The data was collected on Jan. 21, 2023, by SWOT’s KaRIn instrument.

Joint NASA, CNES Water-Tracking Satellite Reveals First Stunning Views

03.24.2023
The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission – led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) – has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on the planet’s surface, showing ocean currents like the Gulf Stream in unprecedented detail.
Global map depicting the extremes of the water cycle over a twenty-year period (2002-2021) based on observations from the GRACE and GRACE-FO satellites

Warming Makes Droughts, Extreme Wet Events More Frequent, Intense

03.13.2023
Scientists have predicted that droughts, floods will become more frequent and severe as our planet warms and climate changes, but measuring this on regional scales has proven difficult.
False-color Terra satellite image of Australia's Barkly region near Tennant Creek and Newcastle Waters

Floods Swamp Australia’s Northern Territory

03.11.2023
Days of rain have swollen rivers and lakes in the sparsely populated territory.
Landsat 9 false-color satellite image of flooded rice fields in Jefferson Davis Parish in southwestern Louisiana on February 3, 2023.

Flooded Rice Fields in Louisiana

03.10.2023
The low-lying alluvial plain of the Mississippi River Valley is home to much of the nation’s rice farms.
Landsat 8 satellite image of landslides in the coastal municipality of São Sebastião, Brazil

Landslides in São Paulo, Brazil

03.04.2023
After torrential rains, satellite images revealed widespread landslides in the Brazilian state’s coastal municipality of São Sebastião.
Landsat 9 satellite image of flooded farmland and communities along the Orontes River

Flooding Along the Orontes River

02.25.2023
Some towns and farmland were flooded after powerful earthquakes and heavy rains struck areas of Türkiye and Syria.
Landsat 9 satellite image of landslide areas in Türkiye

Landslides in Türkiye

02.24.2023
Scientists are using satellite images to locate landslides following the powerful earthquakes that struck in early February.
Photo of Peyman Abbaszadeh

Peyman Abbaszadeh: Hydrology and Hope for the Future

02.14.2023
Peyman Abbaszadeh works with researchers around the world to model and estimate the ways in which water flows above and below the surface of the Earth.
Section of damage proxy map of earthquake impact in parts of Turkey and Syria

NASA Scientists Help with Turkey, Syria Earthquake Response

02.14.2023
NASA’s Earth Applied Sciences Disasters program area is coordinating with stakeholders, providing maps, data and scientific expertise to aid ongoing response efforts and risk assessments.
Landsat 9 satellite image of Shasta Lake

Reservoirs Rise, but Groundwater Woes Remain

02.13.2023
The water delivered by winter storms in 2022-2023 is likely insufficient to reverse the longer-term depletion of California’s groundwater.
Terra satellite natural-color image of flooding along Madagascar's northwest coast

Cheneso Floods Madagascar

02.01.2023
Heavy rain from the tropical cyclone triggered flash floods and landslides along the island nation’s northwestern coast.
Cover of Spinoff 2023

NASA Spinoffs Bolster Climate Resilience, Improve Medical Care, More

01.31.2023
The latest edition of NASA’s Spinoff publication features dozens of new commercialized technologies that use the agency’s technology, research, and/or expertise to benefit people around the globe. It also includes a section highlighting technologies of tomorrow.

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