A "pre-existing condition" stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma.
NASA's Rick Obenschain, deputy director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will lead the investigation board for the unsuccessful launch of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory.
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Tuesday from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base. Preliminary indications are that the fairing on the Taurus XL launch vehicle failed to separate.
The GISS analysis also showed that 2008 is the ninth warmest year since continuous instrumental records were started in 1880.
As the concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere continues to rise, so also do efforts to find solutions to this global problem.
Interactive maps that detail carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are now available on the popular Google Earth platform.
Scientists found that they could detect oil seeping naturally from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico by examining streaks amid the reflected sunlight on the ocean's surface.
2009-02-13 – An early warning system, more than a decade in development, successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley fever in northeast Africa, according to a new study led by NASA scientists.
2009-02-10 – For Orbiting Carbon Observatory Principal Investigator David Crisp of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and his team, the logical solution was an Earth-orbiting spacecraft. But shopping for a science instrument that could accomplish these objectives was no easy task.
A new environmental satellite that will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world soared into space this morning after a picture-perfect launch.
The launch of the NOAA-N Prime weather satellite for NASA and NOAA aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket has been postponed for an additional 24 hours.
An artist's rendering shows a "family portrait" of NASA satellites that collect data about sea surface heights around the world.