Fires in equatorial Asia are growing more frequent and having a serious impact on the air as well as the land.
A team of scientists embark this week on a two-month expedition to Greenland and Iceland to use a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change.
A team of scientists embark this week on a two-month expedition to Greenland and Iceland to use a pair of new airborne radars that can help monitor climate change.
An upcoming NASA mission will track sea salinity, helping scientists monitor and predict climate change.
For the last decade, NASA's Earth Observatory has been using stunning satellite imagery to tell the story of our planet and the NASA scientists who are working to help us understand how it works.
New research shows that the warming effect of aerosols, or small particles in the air, increases with the amount of cloud cover below the aerosols.
Astronauts were inspired by their living quarters to create a process that produces clean biofuels.
A special high definition feed from NASA Television on Earth Day, April 22, will feature views of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station.
NASA centers across the nation invite journalists and the public to see and hear about the agency's efforts and contributions to understanding and protecting Earth.
The CALIPSO satellite is helping scientists solve the puzzle of how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's climate.
NASA satellite data and a new modeling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop.
New research by NASA suggests the ozone layer of the future is unlikely to look much like the past because greenhouse gases are changing the dynamics of the atmosphere.
New NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since 1976 may be due to changes in tiny airborne particles.
The latest Arctic sea ice data show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing.
Polar scientists believe Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier to be thinning because of warm ocean waters below.
Hispaniola, the Caribbean island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is located directly within the hurricane belt, and was pummeled by five tropical cyclones last year.
NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., will hold a media teleconference on Monday, April 6, at 11 a.m. EDT, to present the latest observations of sea ice conditions in the Arctic.