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Satellites Reveal a Greener Antarctic Peninsula
2024.12.02
Scientists are beginning to unravel what comes next, after the ice moves out and vegetation moves in.
Lava Nears Iceland’s Blue Lagoon
2024.11.27
A tongue of lava from the eruption flowed into the parking lot of the geothermal spa.
Alfonso Delgado Bonal Has His Head in the Clouds — for Research
2024.11.26
Research scientist Alfonso Delgado Bonal makes important discoveries about patterns in cloud movements while thriving within the NASA Goddard family.
NASA Data Reveals Role of Green Spaces in Cooling Cities
2024.11.26
A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data to identify a major gap in global resilience to climate change: cities in the Global South have far less green space — and therefore less cooling capacity — than cities in the Global North.
A Hazy, Foggy Day in Italy’s Po Valley
2024.11.22
Research suggests that airborne particles called aerosols contribute to longer-lasting outbreaks of fog.
Extratropical Cyclone Whips Over the Pacific Northwest
2024.11.21
Damaging winds from the strong storm knocked out power for thousands of people in Washington state.
Charting the Exceptional, Unexpected Heat of 2023 and 2024
2024.11.20
Global temperatures have soared in recent years and climate scientists are trying to understand why.
Bob Swap Builds Bridges With ‘Science Diplomacy’
2024.11.19
Associate Director for Mission Planning, Earth Sciences, and environmental scientist Robert J. “Bob” Swap makes a difference by putting knowledge into action.
Mount Fuji Bare Again After Fleeting Snow
2024.11.19
The volcano’s first snow of the season fell in early November 2024—the latest in a 130-year record—only to apparently vanish within a few days.
Signs of Sea Level Rise in the Bahamas
2024.11.18
Rising seas have redistributed cyanobacterial mats blanketing part of Andros Island and restructured the island’s marshes and mudflats.
Antarctic Icebergs Show Their Colorful Undersides
2024.11.16
The blue underbellies of icebergs were spotted floating near the Amery Ice Shelf.
NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels
2024.11.15
From 2015 through 2023, satellite measurements showed that the average amount of freshwater stored on land — that includes liquid surface water like lakes and rivers, plus water in aquifers underground — was 290 cubic miles (1,200 cubic km) lower than the average levels from 2002 through 2014.
Indonesia Continues to Erupt
2024.11.15
A series of explosive eruptions from Mount Lewotobi lofted ash to the cruising altitudes of jets.
NASA Goddard Lidar Team Receives Center Innovation Award for Advancements
2024.11.14
NASA researchers Guan Yang, Jeff Chen, and their team received the 2024 Innovator of The Year Award for their exemplary work on a lidar system enhanced with artificial intelligence and other technologies at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The Earth Observer Editor’s Corner: Fall 2024
2024.11.14
On September 18, 2024, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from the GOES-19 satellite, its newest geostationary satellite launched on June 25, 2024...
Typhoons Line Up in the Western Pacific
2024.11.14
Four storms swirled in the basin, many of which set their sights on the storm-ravaged Philippines.
Blankets of White in the West
2024.11.13
November snows piled up on the plains and peaks of Colorado and New Mexico.
Podcast — Curious Universe: How Open Science and AI Are Advancing Hurricane Research
2024.11.12
Fly directly into the eye of the storm with daring hurricane hunter pilots, meet meteorologists and data scientists building AI models to improve hurricane prediction, and join the disaster response experts helping cities pinpoint their hardest-hit neighborhoods. Plus, learn how NASA is making data open to everyone.
Inia Soto Ramos, From the Mountains of Puerto Rico to Mountains of NASA Earth Data
2024.11.12
Dr. Inia Soto Ramos became fascinated by the mysteries of the ocean while growing up in Puerto Rico’s mountains. Today, she works at NASA as an oceanographer and data manager, where she can uncover these enigmas from space.
NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign Supports Blue Carbon Management in South Florida
2024.11.12
NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign, a three-year (2021–2024), $1.5-million project operating under the agency’s Carbon Monitoring System, used field, aircraft, and satellite data to study the impact of both natural and anthropogenic pressures on South Florida’s coastal ecology.
Windblown Smoke in Southern California
2024.11.08
Strong Santa Ana winds carried the Mountain fire’s plume westward over the Pacific Ocean.
Hurricane Rafael Crosses Cuba
2024.11.07
The latest major storm in 2024’s active hurricane season brought heavy rain and storm surge to Cuba as it moved into the Gulf of Mexico.
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki Spews Ash
2024.11.07
Eruptions in November 2024 sent volcanic material over the Indonesian island of Flores.
A Week of Rain Across Spain
2024.11.06
Recurring storms produced destructive flooding in the country’s southwest and along its eastern coast.
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