New findings show soot may be contributing to changes happening near the North Pole, such as accelerating melting of sea ice and snow and changing atmospheric temperatures.
A NASA-funded study of marine pollution in Southern California concluded space-based synthetic aperture radar can be a vital observational tool for assessing and monitoring ocean hazards in urbanized coastal regions.
NASA is bringing better weather information to pilots and forecasters with the help of airborne sensors installed on a fleet of commuter airliners.
Lightning in clouds, only a few miles above the ground, clears a safe zone in the radiation belts thousands of miles above the Earth, according to NASA-funded researchers.
Eons ago, giant clouds in space may have led to global extinctions, according to two recent technical papers supported by NASA's Astrobiology Institute.
NASA researchers used satellite data from 1998 to 2003 to show that phytoplankton amounts have increased globally by more than 4 percent.
NASA signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) today with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to foster improved global conservation through increased use of NASA Earth science research and remote sensing data.