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If you want to understand how interconnected our planet is—how patterns and events in one place can affect life half…
Polar sea ice grows and shrinks dramatically each year, driven by seasonal cycles. Habitat for wildlife and harbinger of changing…
Are you distracted by unusual colors in satellite images? They are not photographs, and understanding the difference between them is…
What do you do when presented with a new satellite image? Here's what the Earth Observatory team does to understand…
Satellite research shows that the world's hottest spot changes, though the conditions don't. Think dry, rocky, and dark-colored lands...and cities.
Carbon flows between the atmosphere, land, and ocean in a cycle that encompasses nearly all life and sets the thermostat…
Tiny aerosol particles can be found over oceans, deserts, mountains, forests, ice sheets, and every ecosystem in between. They drift…
Landscape sculptor. Climate driver. Life supporter. Water is the most important molecule on our planet.
Microscopic plant-like organisms called phytoplankton are the base of the marine food web, and they play a key role in…
