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Map depicting concentration of black carbon particulates—commonly called soot—over North America on July 21, 2021

Smoke Across North America

07.23.2021
Skies turned hazy from Pittsburgh to Washington to Boston, as smoke from fires in Canada poured into the U.S. Northeast.
NASA's ER-2 high altitude research aircraft in flight over mountains

Media Invited to Learn About NASA Mission to Study Intense Storms

07.22.2021
NASA is inviting media to learn more about an upcoming airborne science campaign to study intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States, which will aid scientists in their understanding of how such storms affect Earth’s atmosphere and climate change. The event will be held via WebEx at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 27.
Still from animation of Coastal North Queensland

Coastal North Queensland

07.22.2021
Tour the Australian state’s diverse landscapes and waterscapes.
Landsat 8 false color image of flooding in The Netherlands

Deadly Floods Surprise Europe

07.20.2021
Flash floods have devastated several communities in Germany, Belgium, and The Netherlands.
Artist concept of Landsat 9 in orbit

NASA Invites Media to Launch of Landsat 9 From West Coast

07.19.2021
Media accreditation is open for the upcoming launch of the Landsat 9 satellite, a joint NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) mission that will continue the legacy of monitoring Earth???s land and coastal regions that began with the first Landsat in 1972.
Map of Chlorophyll Fluorescence in Tampa Bay

Algae Abound Along Florida Coast

07.19.2021
Tampa Bay is teeming with Karenia brevis months before it usually blooms.
NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center ER-2 #809 high-altitude aircraft taking off for Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere (DCOTSS) science flights in Palmdale, CA on June 17, 2021.

NASA Mission Explores Intense Summertime Thunderstorms

07.16.2021
NASA and university scientists will be studying the intense summer thunderstorms over the central United States to understand their effects on Earth’s atmosphere and how it contributes to climate change.
Photo of speckle-skinned whale shark swimming through the ocean

Five Ways NASA Helps With Shark Conservation

07.14.2021
While scientists at our partner institutions are directly focusing on shark conservation, NASA's Earth-observing satellites collect key information about sharks' habitat – the ocean.
Photo of signing ceremony participants

NASA, ESA Partner in New Effort to Address Global Climate Change

07.13.2021
NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) have formed a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership to observe Earth and its changing environment. Recognizing that climate change is an urgent global challenge, the timing is right for NASA and ESA, as partners in space, to join forces to lead and support a global response to climate change.
Satellite image of North America

NASA Seeks Input to Broaden Participation in Earth Science

07.08.2021
To enhance participation and engagement in NASA’s Earth science investigator community, NASA’s Earth Science Division is seeking feedback from faculty members, staff, and administrators of Minority Serving Institutions.
Photo of vehicle on Antarctica snow

NASA Space Lasers Map Meltwater Lakes in Antarctica With Striking Precision

07.07.2021
With the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have improved their maps of hidden lake systems under the West Antarctic ice sheet.
Suomi NPP satellite inage of Siberian wildfires and smoke

Fires Scorch the Sakha Republic

07.07.2021
Large, smoky fires are raging through forests in northeastern Russia.
Photo of high-tide flooding in Honolulu

Study Projects a Surge in Coastal Flooding, Starting in 2030s

07.07.2021
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience rapidly increasing high-tide floods, when a lunar cycle will amplify rising sea levels caused by climate change.
Suomi NPP satellite image of Tropical Storm Elsa over the Caribbean

Tropical Storm Elsa Over the Caribbean, July 4, 2021

07.04.2021
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Storm Elsa on July 4, 2021, when it was affecting Jamaica. In the visible image captured by Suomi NPP’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument, Elsa appeared somewhat asymmetrical.
Landsat 8 satellite image of the McKay Creek fire

Blazes Rage in British Columbia

07.02.2021
More than 40 wildfires were burning across the Canadian province by the end of June 2021, including a cluster of substantial blazes located about 200 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.
Image of LANDSAT letters on printing press

NASA Invites You to Create Landsat-Inspired Arts and Crafts

07.01.2021
To celebrate Landsat 9's September launch, we invite you to get creative with #LandsatCraft and show us what Landsat means to you!
Map of Surface Temperature Anomaly in Siberia

A Scorcher in Siberia and Europe

07.01.2021
While record-breaking heat enveloped the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, other parts of the Northern Hemisphere also saw early-summer temperatures climb.
Photo of teams loading SWOT into airplane

Assembly of Satellite to Track World’s Water Shifts From US to France

06.30.2021
Set for launch next year, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will help scientists monitor Earth’s ocean, as well as the amount of fresh water in its lakes and rivers.
Artist concept of TROPICS in orbit

Pathfinder Satellite Paves Way for Constellation of Tropical-storm Observers

06.30.2021
To bring more data to forecasters and have a more consistent watch over Earth's tropical belt where these storms form, NASA has launched a test satellite, or pathfinder, ahead of a constellation of six weather satellites called TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats).
Animation of Northern Hemisphere noctilucent clouds

NASA Satellites See Upper Atmosphere Cooling and Contracting Due to Climate Change

06.30.2021
The sky isn't falling, but scientists have found that parts of the upper atmosphere are gradually contracting in response to rising human-produced greenhouse gas emissions. Combined data from three NASA satellites have produced a long-term record that reveals the mesosphere is cooling and contracting.
GEOS map of air temperature anomalies across the continental United States and Canada on June 27, 2021

Exceptional Heat Hits Pacific Northwest

06.29.2021
In June 2021, all-time temperature records fell in multiple cities in the U.S. and Canada during a “historic and dangerous” heatwave.
Photograph of the MOOSE study region taken from the Langley C-20B Gulfstream III

NASA Maps Air Quality in Ozone Hot Spot

06.25.2021
Scientists are flying an airborne campaign out of NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia this month to contribute to a joint U.S.-Canadian study on air quality in a region with high surface ozone levels.
Aqua satellite natural-color image of smoke streaming from several large fires in Arizona

Fires Rage in Arizona

06.24.2021
Hot, dry weather has parched vegetation and turned the state into a tinderbox.
Photo of active smoke stack with outpouring smoke

NASA Helps Map Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Harmful Air Pollution

06.23.2021
For tiny airborne-particle pollution, known as PM 2.5, researchers using NASA data found that variability from meteorology obscured the lockdown signals when observed from space.
Image of phytoplankton bloom

NASA Awards Funds to Minority-Serving Institutions for Ocean Research

06.21.2021
NASA???s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry, or OCEAN, has awarded cooperative agreements to 10 universities for projects that will support NASA???s Science Mission Directorate in seeking a better understanding of the ocean???s role in the Earth system.

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