NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing…
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The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires…
NASA’s Aqua captured this image of a huge number of wildfires that have broken out…
Western US states have been battling close to 100 wildfires, blanketing the majority of the…
This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, shows the Amazon River meandering through one…
In early September 2020, an intense heatwave broke temperature records in several locations in Southern…
Stone forests — pointed rock formations resembling trees that populate regions of China, Madagascar, and…
Ongoing land clearing for agriculture, mining, and urbanization is isolating and disconnecting Earth’s protected natural…
On August 19, 2020, the world’s largest and longest polar research expedition – known as…
A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to…
On September 7, 2020, NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided two different views of how fires…
On September 6, NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged active…
On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 p.m. PDT the Creek Fire began in…
Intense heat, winds, and drought have fueled smoky infernos in the western United States. Though…
An all-day digital workshop to explore how space can boost clean energy and contribute to…
Global warming is dramatically increasing the risk of extreme hurricanes in the Caribbean, but meeting…
A global analysis reveals for the first time that across almost all tree species, fast-growing…
Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most…