Changes to farming practices in rice paddies in China may have led to a decrease in methane emissions, and an observed decline in the rate that methane has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the last 20 years, a NASA-funded study finds.
Weather and climate forecasters will double their pleasure, thanks to today's successful launch of NASA’s SeaWinds scatterometer instrument.
Satellite data shows that warmer than normal waters are in the central Pacific Ocean unlike the last El Nino
NASA’s laser technology may soon be part of your car’s exhaust system.
El Niño is not a new weather phenomenon, according to a recent NASA study that looks 750 years into the past using tree-ring records.
The total area of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet for 2002 broke all known records for the island and the extent of Arctic sea ice reached the lowest level in the satellite record, according to scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The first image released from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace), a joint NASA-German Aerospace Center mission, graphically illustrates the sensitivity of the mission’s twin spacecraft to changes in Earth’s gravity.
New research findings from NASA’s Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite and its SeaWinds instrument have documented for the first time the significant effect typhoons have on the ocean and ocean life. The findings will be presented during a press conference highlighting recent research and findings from QuikScat at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Saturday, December 7, at 8 a.m. Pacific Time.
A team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the Royal Observatory of Belgium has apparently solved a recently observed mystery regarding changes to the physical shape of Earth and its gravity field. The answer, they found, appears to lie in the melting of sub-polar glaciers and mass shifts in the Southern, Pacific and Indian Oceans associated with global-scale climate changes.
Low-flying airplanes could scan seas to efficiently determine coral reef health, according to a NASA scientist who will discuss her research Dec. 8 during the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
Atmospheric scientists used laser technology while riding in traffic behind New York City transit buses to find out exactly how much and what type of pollution different types of buses emit in their exhausts, and the results were surprising.
A greater number of large “planetary sized waves” in the atmosphere that move from the lower atmosphere into the upper atmosphere were responsible for the smaller Antarctic ozone hole this fall, according to NASA researchers.