Climate Change

Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Space Flight Center
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2)
For the second consecutive year, winter sea ice in the Arctic reached a level that matches the lowest peak observed since satellite monitoring began in 1979. On March 15, Arctic sea ice extent reached 5.52 million square miles (14.29 million square kilometers), very close to the 2025 peak of 5.53 million square miles (14.31 million […]
Posted March 26, 2026
Climate Change
Earth
Earth's Atmosphere
Greenhouse Gases
Florida’s coastal wetlands face new threats as sea levels and temperatures climb. NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign is developing a new, satellite-based data product that could shape efforts to protect their future.
Posted March 14, 2025
Climate Change
Earth
Earth's Atmosphere
Greenhouse Gases
In the Florida Everglades, NASA’s BlueFlux Campaign investigates the relationship between tropical wetlands and greenhouse gases.
Posted March 13, 2025
NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar)
Climate Change
Earth
Earth Science
Earth Science Division
Ice & Glaciers
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Seasat
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
SIR-C/X-SAR (Shuttle Imaging Radar-C / X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar)
A Q&A with the lead U.S. scientist of the mission, which will track changes in everything from wetlands to ice sheets to infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. The upcoming U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission will observe Earth like no mission before, offering insights about our planet’s ever-changing surface.
Posted January 6, 2025
Earth
Climate Change
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Climate researchers from NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2024 during a media briefing at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 10.
Posted January 3, 2025
Climate Change
Earth
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM)
Goddard Space Flight Center
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Water on Earth
Earth’s rainy days are changing: They’re becoming less frequent, but more intense. Vegetation is responding.
Posted December 11, 2024
Climate Change
Earth
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Human Dimensions
Landsat
Landsat 8 / LDCM (Landsat Data Continuity Mission)
As any urban dweller who has lived through a heat wave knows, a shady tree can make all the difference. But what happens when there’s no shade available? A recent study in Nature Communications used NASA satellite data to identify a major gap in global resilience to climate change: cities in the Global South have […]
Posted November 26, 2024
Oceans
Climate Change
Earth
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Natural Disasters
The information will help people who live in coastal areas prepare for impacts caused by rising sea levels. Earth’s ocean is rising, disrupting livelihoods and infrastructure in coastal communities around the world.
Posted November 13, 2024
Ozone Layer
Climate Change
Earth
General
Healing continues in the atmosphere over the Antarctic: a hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project the ozone layer could fully recover by 2066. During the peak of ozone […]
Posted October 30, 2024
Earth
Carbon Cycle
Climate Change
Greenhouse Gases
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Earth’s far northern reaches have locked carbon underground for millennia. New research paints a picture of a landscape in change. A new study, co-authored by NASA scientists, details where and how greenhouse gases are escaping from the Earth’s vast northern permafrost region as the Arctic warms.
Posted October 29, 2024
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