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Southeastern Ethiopia’s longest river supports the growth of green vegetation amid the otherwise brown, desert landscape.
Intense fires and a passing cold front led to the sprawling feature.
Communities in the High Atlas Mountains were among the hardest hit after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused widespread damage.
Unusual late-season melting in Greenland turned the glacier’s surface into a mishmash of ice, firn, melt, and dirt.
The instrument will enable nonprofit organization Carbon Mapper to pinpoint and measure methane and carbon dioxide sources from space.
The instrument will enable nonprofit organization Carbon Mapper to pinpoint and measure methane and carbon dioxide sources from space.
El verano boreal de 2023 fue el más caluroso para la Tierra desde que se establecieron registros mundiales de temperaturas en 1880, según un análisis realizado por científicos del Instituto Goddard de Estudios Espaciales (GISS, por sus siglas en inglés) de la NASA en Nueva York.
The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
goodallwithchimps.png The Jane Goodall Institute uses NASA data to empower local communities to drive chimpanzee habitat conservation. Credits: NASA/Jane Goodall Institute For decades, satellites have measured dramatic changes in the world's forests. These eyes in the sky provide... Read More
An otherworldly landscape on a plateau in the Andes provides a natural laboratory for scientists studying Earth and Mars.
The world’s glaciers could lose as much as 40% of their mass by 2100 with 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. That's according to a NASA-funded study appearing in the journal Science.
The world’s glaciers could lose as much as 40% of their mass by 2100 with 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. That's according to a NASA-funded study appearing in the journal Science.
Naturally occurring hydrogen was discovered emanating from “fairy circles” in Australia.
The Flaming Gorge Reservoir lies within a national recreation area that straddles the two states.