Researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt.
Researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt.
Researchers have used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in Alaskan glaciers.
The Antarctic ozone hole reached its annual maximum on Sept. 12, 2008, stretching over 27 million kilometers, or 10.5 square miles.
NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers.
When Jeffrey Sachs speaks of poverty, he's not talking about a hungry waif in New York or a homeless person in Chicago.
A new look at a classic experiment reveals volcanoes may have played a crucial role in the rise of life on Earth.
NASA's new coronagraph laboratory, called the Ames Coronagraph Experiment (ACE) Laboratory, is pushing development of a new optics system to enable scientists to observe Earth-like planets that otherwise would be lost in the glare of the stars they orbit.
A NASA/university team has published the first global satellite maps of the key greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in Earth's mid-troposphere, an area about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles, above Earth.
10.28.08 - NASA satellite data can improve forecasts of dust storms in the American Southwest in ways that can benefit public health managers.
10.23.08 - New research indicates a powerful greenhouse gas is at least four times more prevalent in the atmosphere than previously estimated.