Satellite confirms decline in pollution from coal power plants
12.07.11Adam Voiland and Rani Gran,NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterA team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the...
View ArticleNASA finds 2011 ninth-warmest year on record
While average global temperature will still fluctuate from year to year, scientists focus on the decadal trend. Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have occurred since the year 2000, as the Earth...
View ArticleNASA finds Russian runoff freshening Canadian Arctic
Increasing freshwater on the U.S. and Canadian side of the Arctic from 2005 to 2008 is balanced by decreasing freshwater on the Russian side, so that on average the Arctic did not have more freshwater....
View ArticleNASA study: Earth's energy budget 'out of balance'
A graph of the sun's total solar irradiance shows that in recent years irradiance dipped to the lowest levels recorded during the satellite era. The resulting reduction in the amount of solar...
View ArticleNASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'
Clouds play a vital role in Earth's energy balance, cooling or warming Earth's surface depending on their type. This painting, "Cumulus Congestus," by JPL's Graeme Stephens, principal investigator of...
View ArticleNASA finds 2011 ninth-warmest year on record
While average global temperature will still fluctuate from year to year, scientists focus on the decadal trend. Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have occurred since the year 2000, as the Earth...
View ArticleNASA Spacecraft Returns First Video from Far Side Of The Moon
WASHINGTON -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon...
View ArticleWatching the planet breathe
Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth’s plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters [1], researchers working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion...
View ArticleEarth's clouds are getting lower
02.22.12By Alan Buis,NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryEarth's clouds got a little lower — about one percent on average — during the first decade of this century, finds a new study based on NASA satellite...
View ArticleTrekking the global in search of answers
02.15.12By Alan Buis,NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryWhile NASA's fleet of Earth science spacecraft — its "eyes on the Earth"— continues to monitor the pulse of our home planet, 2012 is also shaping up...
View ArticleNASA map sees Earth's trees in a new light
02.21.12By Alan Buis,Jet Propulsion LaboratoryA NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the...
View ArticleInfrared eye opens
02.09.12By Cynthia O'Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,John Leslie, National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationA powerful new infrared instrument, flying on NASA's newest polar-orbiting...
View ArticleDetecting detrimental change in coral reefs
02.09.12By Laura Rocchio,NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterOver dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover’s Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected...
View Article'First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument
The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure...
View ArticleNASA mission takes stock of Earth's melting land ice
02.08.12By Alan Buis,Jet Propulsion LaboratorySteve Cole,NASA HeadquartersIn the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to...
View ArticleNASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'
01.31.12By Alan Buis,Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTwo years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., released a study claiming that inconsistencies between...
View ArticleNASA study: Earth's energy budget 'out of balance'
02.01.12By Adam Voiland,NASA's Earth Science News TeamA new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity—not changes in solar activity—are the primary force driving...
View ArticleMuddled outlook
The 2012 hurricane season in North and Central America arrives with a muddled outlook. Sea surface temperatures are not particularly warm or cool, and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is...
View ArticleMild fire forecast
Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers.Fire...
View ArticleNASA's new carbon-counting instrument leaves the nest
Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft — NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon...
View ArticleStorm sentinels
Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information...
View ArticleChina Olympics Traffic Measures Cut Carbon Emissions
A new NASA-funded study of the impacts of China's traffic restrictions for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing shows how widespread changes in transportation patterns could greatly reduce the threat of...
View ArticleHOT OR COLD - GLOBAL WARMING
While there is still some disagreement about global warming, many scientists believe it is the result of changes in the earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere creates a blanket that surrounds the earth....
View ArticleEarth’s average surface temperature
Global Warming is the rise of Earth’s average surface temperature due to result of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat...
View ArticleClimate Change Impacts
As environmental change influences transportation, it will be paramount to see how transportation base may be affected over the short- and long haul. This segment gives assets on the conceivable...
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