Images from NASA's Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer show the swollen waters of the Nile, which reached their highest levels in more than two decades.

Saharan dust clouds travel thousands of miles and fertilize the water off the West Florida coast with iron, which kicks off blooms of toxic algae, according to a new study.

NASA researchers are helping growers improve wine quality by using remote-sensing technology to scan vineyards from high above California.

On August 22, NASA completed a set of maneuvers on the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) spacecraft to boost its orbit around Earth.

NASA awarded funding for 11 new contracts for technology development of innovative Earth Science remote-sensing instruments under its Instrument Incubator Program (IIP).

U.S. firefighters and land managers are using the most modern NASA-satellite data to combat wildfires. NASA's Terra satellite provides a view of fires across all of the conterminous United States, which helps manage fires more effectively, both during and after wildfire events.

Scientists for the first time ever can simultaneously measure the height and motion of clouds over Earth from pole to pole, which may improve weather forecasts

Four miniature unmanned airplanes leased by University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and equipped with sophisticated meteorological instruments are buzzing through storms near Jacksonville, Fla., as faculty and students await a hurricane. (University of Colorado at Boulder release)

GOES-12, a geostationary weather satellite that takes images of clouds, measures temperature, reads the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, and monitors space weather, sent back a clear, crisp image from its vantage point 22,300 miles in space.

Langley scientists are taking part in the fourth Convection and Moisture Experiment (CAMEX-4) based out of Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla., through September. On board specially instrumented aircraft, researchers will fly in and around hurricanes approaching the East Coast and Gulf regions of the United States.

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will head into hurricanes this summer, hoping to improve predictions of these deadly storms by using new data-collecting technology.

Learning how to increase the warning time before Atlantic hurricanes make landfall is a goal of some100 U.S. researchers from NASA and other agencies who will a begin a 5-week campaign on Aug. 16.

New research based upon NASA satellite data and a multi-national field experiment shows that black carbon aerosol pollution produced by humans can impact global climate as well as seasonal cycles of rainfall.

Armed with airplanes, robotic aerial vehicles and a fleet of sophisticated instruments, a team of researchers participating in a NASA study is waiting to meet this year's hurricanes head-on, gathering data vital to improve hurricane modeling and prediction.

Researchers and their instruments have spread throughout Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, in an effort to check the accuracy of land maps generated from NASA satellite data. These maps provide valuable information about the Earth's land surface and different types of ecological communities.

A new study confirms a long-held theory that large solar storms rain electrically charged particles down on Earth's atmosphere and deplete the upper-level ozone for weeks to months thereafter.