NASA data from space is helping advance efforts that may soon allow scientists to predict when and where wildfires may occur.

Two new NASA-funded studies of ozone in the tropics using NASA satellite data are giving scientists a fuller understanding of the processes driving ozone chemistry and its impacts on pollution and climate change.

The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) team has won a prestigious award for significant achievements in remote sensing.

Space observations of freshwater storage by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace) are providing a new picture of how Earth's most precious natural resource is changing.

NASA recently collaborated with the Fish and Wildlife Service to determine the usefulness of satellite imagery for studying the effect of climate change on the Pacific walrus ice habitat in Alaska.

In 2005, scientists using NASA aircraft measured the internal structure of Hurricane Dennis, giving clues about the evolution of a hurricane's warm inner core and other factors related to their formation.

Using data gathered from a field research mission, scientists have re-created Tropical Storm Gert on a computer model as a four-dimensional structure to help them understand the mechanisms of tropical cyclone formation.

Recent advances in remote sensing, the use of highly sensitive instruments aboard satellites and aircraft, have enabled scientists to examine the mass balance of the ice sheets and to determine just where and how quickly the ice is growing or shrinking.

A NASA scientist recently led an expedition to send a NASA-built probe into the glacial chutes in the remote and isolated Pakisoq region of the West Greenland Ice Sheet.

In a NASA study, scientists have concluded that when Earth's climate warms, there is a reduction in the ocean's primary food supply.