Greenhouse Effect
Earth has an incredibly varied and ever-changing landscape—jagged mountains, arid deserts, lush rainforests, rolling wheat fields. Before NASA came on…
Life all over the planet—even far from the coasts—depends on the oceans. A pair of NASA satellites, PACE and SWOT,…
There’s one planet NASA studies more than any other: Earth. With our unique vantage point from space, NASA collects information…
Takeaways Increasing Greenhouses Gases Are Warming the Planet Scientists attribute the global warming trend observed since the mid-20th century to…
Water vapor is Earth’s most abundant greenhouse gas. It’s responsible for about half of Earth’s greenhouse effect — the process…
The greenhouse effect is the process through which heat is trapped near Earth’s surface by substances known as ‘greenhouse gases.’…
