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A serious drought has flared up across half of the United States — a familiar story for the past two decades.
(2020-12-14)

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The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was supercharged, and not just in raw numbers.
(2020-12-10)

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GISS scientists answer questions about a new study that narrows the range of uncertainty in future climate projections.
(2020-09-09)

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GISS scientists leveraged NASA supercomputing resources for several months to model a hypothetical climate history for Venus over the past 4.2 billion years.
(2020-08-28)

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Following an active 2019 season, fires in 2020 have again been abundant, widespread, and have produced abnormally large carbon emissions.
(2020-08-07)

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Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the journal article “Spectral signature of the biosphere: NISTAR finds it in our solar system from the Lagrangian L-1 point” by Barbara Carlson et al. as the top work among 160 research publications by institute staff published in 2019.
(2020-08-07)

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NASA/GISS remembers our longtime friend and colleague, Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko (1959-2020).
(2020-07-27)

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Abnormally warm ocean temperatures and a potential La Niña set the stage for an above-average Atlantic hurricane season.
(2020-07-20)

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Fires are raging in eastern Siberia in the midst of an unusually long-lived heat wave.
(2020-06-24)

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A series of model studies analyzed the effect of the solar cycle and varying solar conditions at all wavelengths.
(2020-06-16)

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After dry weather parched the soil and vegetation, large fires burned in the northwestern Venezuela state.
(2020-04-29)

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Powered by the Discover supercomputer, climate simulations incorporated a dynamic ocean to explore the habitability of Proxima Centauri b.
(2020-02-21)

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Taking a global food system approach to climate change research -- production, supply chains, and consumption -- is a key step in both adapting to and mitigating climate change.
(2020-02-18)

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Scientists are finding that models developed to study Earth's climate can be used to determine whether exoplanets can support life.
(2020-01-24)

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Afternoon thunderstorms are a typical phenomenon during summer in Western Australia.
(2020-01-17)

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According to independent analyses, Earth's global surface temperature in 2019 was the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
(2020-01-15)

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A new evaluation of global climate models used to project Earth's future global average surface temperature finds that most have been quite accurate.
(2020-01-09)

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