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Arnab Strikes India
2026.10.29
The first named storm of the North Indian Ocean’s cyclone season made landfall along the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
The Land of the Standing-Up Rocks
2026.10.28
A national monument since the 1920s, Chiricahua is America's newest national park.
A-81 Reaches South Georgia
2026.10.27
The Antarctic iceberg made a relatively quick exit from the Weddell Sea, only to slow at the edge of a remote island’s underwater shelf.
NASA, USDA Sign Agreement Advancing Earth Science, Agriculture
2026.10.26
NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding expanding cooperation in Earth observation, geospatial analytics, and advanced data technologies, supporting USDA’s data modernization plan for United States agriculture.
Hunting Red Leaves with Satellites
2026.10.26
A modern satellite makes it possible to pursue the ancient tradition of leaf-peeping in a whole new way.
El Niño Then and Now
2026.10.23
A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year's El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.
NASA’s CASALS Instrument Bridges Gaps in 3D Maps of Earth’s Surface
2026.10.21
From orbit, today's space-based laser instruments measure Earth's forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines are enormous gaps that include millions of acres of land scientists never directly measure. NASA’s CASALS instrument will blend machine learning with an ultra-compact lidar instrument to...
Extratropical Cyclone Whips Past Iceland
2026.10.21
The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.
The Human Fingerprint on Earth’s Water Cycle
2026.10.20
Human activities have become intertwined with how water is distributed across the continents. A new study brings their effects into sharper focus.
Autumn Paints Poland’s Bieszczady Mountains
2026.10.19
Fall color covers the forested slopes of Bieszczady National Park, while patches of polonina, a type of high-mountain meadow, have turned tan.
Isaias Dims the Gulf Coast
2026.10.16
High-definition images of nighttime lights show where the hurricane knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle and how quickly the lights came back.
NASA Satellites Observe Historic 2026 El Niño
2026.10.15
A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is tracking it closely.
Fires Arrive in the Amazon Rainforest
2026.10.15
During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and eastern Amazon.
Hurricane Simon Lurks Off the Mexican Coast
2026.10.14
Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the upper atmosphere.
Re-Connecting on the North Slope: NASA FORTE’s Summer 2025 Pre-Field Visit
2026.10.13
In July 2025, NASA’s Earth Venture Suborbital Mission FORTE (Frontlines of Rapidly Transforming Ecosystems) moved from planning to action on the North Slope of Alaska.
Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Its 2026 Maximum
2026.10.12
The ice reached its third-lowest maximum extent since satellite observations began.
Floodwaters Overwhelm Thailand
2026.10.09
Heavy rains since mid-September have caused widespread flooding that has affected millions of people across the country.
Fighting Drought in Texas Cotton Country
2026.10.08
Drought and an ailing aquifer were major topics of conversation when NASA scientists visited with farmers in the Texas High Plains.
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Its 2026 Minimum
2026.10.07
Satellite records show Arctic sea ice covering less of the ocean in both winter and summer.
The Beaver Brown Waters of Rupert Bay
2026.10.06
Dissolved organic matter and suspended sediment mingle in the southernmost extent of James Bay.
NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
2026.10.02
The Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho erupted with a massive pulse of smoke. No one had expected it, but the wildfire had launched what’s known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb. It was an elusive weather phenomenon that scientists on NASA’s INSPYRE (INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment) campaign spent weeks this summer hunting..
Rains Swamp the Gandak River
2026.10.02
After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.
An Agricultural “Island” in the Saskatchewan River Delta
2026.10.01
Surrounded by wetlands, Manitoba's northernmost farmland near The Pas turns from green to brown over the 2026 growing season.
Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific
2026.09.30
Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.
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