Recent Earth Science News and Articles
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Using decades of Landsat and Sentinel-2 images, researchers discover the Urban Pulse to help track the cycles and rhythms of how neighborhoods within cities change.
The sight of an icy skull-like visage on the Antarctic island could make one’s blood run cold.
NASA-funded researchers are helping Virginia officials assess the impacts of a harmful algal bloom on oyster farms along the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore.
The first named storm of the North Indian Ocean’s cyclone season made landfall along the coast of Andhra Pradesh.
A national monument since the 1920s, Chiricahua is America's newest national park.
The student ballooning team at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities went to work tracking the plume of a pyrocumulonimbus cloud.
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 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. “NASA develops some of the most…
A modern satellite makes it possible to pursue the ancient tradition of leaf-peeping in a whole new way.
A 35-year satellite altimetry record lets scientists hold this year's El Niño up against its strongest predecessors.
Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.
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…
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