NASA News & Feature Releases
Following are news and feature releases prepared by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Public Affairs Office and by other NASA news services in connection with research and events at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Please see the GSFC Newsmedia site for other Goddard research news, or visit the NASA News Highlights and NASA for Media and Press sites for news from around NASA.
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2020
2020-07-27: In Memoriam, Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko
2020-01-24: How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds
2020-01-15: NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record
2010-01-09: Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Right
2019
2019-07-09: A Drier Future Sets the Stage for More Wildfires
2019-06-13: Earth's Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought
2019-05-23: New Studies Increase Confidence in NASA's Measure of Earth's Temperature
2019-05-09: NASA Education Program Fosters Climate of Discovery
2019-05-01: NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years
2019-02-06: 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend, According to NASA, NOAA
2018
2018-06-25: Will We Know Life When We See It? NASA-led Group Takes Stock of the Science
2018-01-18: Long-Term Warming Trend Continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA
2017
2017-11-15: Our Living Planet Shapes the Search for Life Beyond Earth
2017-10-19: New NASA Study Improves Search for Habitable Worlds
2017-10-03: Goddard Institute for Space Studies Scientist Wins 2017 Nordberg Award
2017-08-10: NASA Airborne Mission Returns to Africa to Study Smoke, Clouds
2017-08-02: Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere
2017-06-12: NASA-MIT Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge
2017-05-25: A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA's Juno Mission
2017-05-11: NASA Study Finds Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere Around “Warm Neptune”
2017-04-28: NASA Awards Goddard Institute For Space Studies Contract
2017-03-29: NASA-University Study Finds 11 Percent of Disappearing Groundwater Used to Grow Internationally Traded Food
2017-01-18: NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
2016
2016-11-16: From NYC to Rio: NASA Helps Cities Address Climate Risks
2016-10-12: Cynthia Rosenzweig — “What If and So What? Climate Change and Corn/Wheat/Rice/Soybeans
2016-08-23: To Better Understand Mega-Eruptions, Just Add Water
2016-08-11: NASA Climate Modelers: Venus May Have Been Habitable
2016-08-01: Severe 2015 Indonesian Fire Season Linked to El Niño Drought
2016-07-19: 2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records
2016-05-04: Expanding Tropics Pushing High Altitude Clouds Towards Poles
2016-05-03: Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Will Help and Hurt Crops
2016-03-21: Climate Change Shifting Wine Grape Harvests in France and Switzerland
2016-03-01: NASA Finds Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years
2016-01-20: NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal Record-Shattering Global Warm Temperatures in 2015
2015
2015-12-18: Examination of Earth's Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures
2015-09-16: NYCRI Students Team with Teachers and NASA Scientists
2015-08-10: Three NASA Scientists Honored as AGU Fellows
2015-05-12: No Major U.S. Hurricane Landfalls in Nine Years: Luck?
2015-04-21: NASA GISS to Help Lead Search for Habitable Exoplanets
2015-03-25: Increased Rainfall in Tropics Caused by More Frequent Big Storms
2015-02-17: NASA Science Leads New York City Climate Change 2015 Report
2015-02-12: NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts
2015-01-16: NASA, NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record
2014
2014-10-31: NASA Program Enhances Climate Resilience at Agency Facilities
2014-10-14: NASA Study Finds 1934 Had Worst Drought of Last Thousand Years
2014-07-17: NASA Kicks Off Field Campaign to Probe Ocean Ecology, Carbon Cycle
2014-06-09: Schmidt Named Director of Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2014-06-04: Teachers and Scientists Meet at NASA GISS for Climate Change Workshop
2014-03-11: Long-Term Warming Likely to Be Significant Despite Recent Slowdown
2014-02-28: NASA Satellite Sees Great Freeze Over Great Lakes
2014-02-27: NASA Goes Down Under to Tap High-Altitude Ice
2014-01-31: NASA Goddard Announces Winners of AMS, AGU and AAS Honors
2014-01-21: NASA Finds 2013 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend
2013
2013-09-27: Climate Models Show Potential 21st Century Temperature, Precipitation Changes
2013-09-04: This September, Ask a Climate Scientist
2013-04-02: Hansen to Hand Over Reins of Goddard Institute for Space Studies Director
2013-02-20: NASA Releases Glory Taurus XL Launch Failure Report Summary
2013-01-15: NASA Finds 2012 Sustained Long-Term Climate Warming Trend
2012
2012-08-06: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming
2012-07-10: The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn
2012-06-25: Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn
2012-05-02: Decades of Data Show Spring Advancing Faster Than Experiments Suggest
2012-03-13: Cassini Spies Wave Rattling Jet Stream on Jupiter
2012-03-07: Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool
2012-02-16: NASA Awards Goddard Institute for Space Studies Contract
2012-01-30: Earth's Energy Budget Remained Out of Balance Despite Unusually Low Solar Activity
2012-01-30: NASA Scientists Awarded Distinctions as 2012 AGU Elected Fellows
2012-01-19: NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
2012-01-12: NASA Study Shows Health, Food Security Benefits From Climate Change Actions
2011
2011-12-08: Paleoclimate Record Points Toward Potential Rapid Climate Changes
2011-12-05: Ancient Dry Spells Offer Clues on Future Drought
2011-10-24: NASA Scientist Receives Inaugural Climate Communications Award
2011-04-01: Cleaner Vehicle Standards Good for Health, Agriculture, Climate
2011-03-17: Cassini Sees Seasonal Rains Transform Titan's Surface
2011-03-09: NASA Names Mishap Board For Taurus XL Launch Failure Investigation
2011-03-04: NASA Creates Glory Satellite Mishap Investigation Board
2011-03-01: Glory Satellite Scheduled for Launch on March 4
2011-02-24: NASA Assessing New Launch Dates for the Glory Mission
2011-02-22: Next Step In NASA Climate Studies Set To Launch
2011-02-20: Cleaning the Air Would Limit Short-Term Climate Warming
2011-02-16: Glory Promises New View of Perplexing Particles
2011-02-10: With A-List Help, Glory Aims to Unravel Uncertainties About Aerosols
2011-01-20: Glory to Study Key Pieces of the Climate Puzzle
2011-01-13: Global Temperature Records in Close Agreement
2011-01-12: NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
2010
2010-10-27: NASA Models Earth's Fiery Past and Future
2010-10-14: How Carbon Dioxide Controls Earth's Temperature
2010-09-30: How Warm Was This Summer?
2010-07-01: Who CARES About Carbonaceous Aerosols?
2010-06-28: NASA Goddard Introduces the NASA Center for Climate Simulation
2010-02-18: Road Transportation Emerges as Key Driver of Warming
2010-02-18: Scientist Nadine Unger Discusses Which Sectors of the Economy Impact the Climate
2010-01-21: 2009: Second Warmest Year on Record; End of Warmest Decade
2010-01-21: Climatologist Gavin Schmidt Discusses the Surface Temperature Record
2009
2009-12-14: Black Carbon Deposits on Himalayan Ice Threaten Earth's "Third Pole"
2009-10-29: Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases
2009-08-24: NASA Expands High-End Computing System for Climate Simulation
2009-07-16: Taking Flight To Seek Out The Least Understood Climate Driver
2009-04-08: Aerosols May Drive Significant Portion of Arctic Warming
2009-03-12: NASA's Next Climate-Research Satellite One Step Closer to Orbit
2009-03-12: New Aerosol Observing Technique Turns Gray Skies to Blue
2009-02-23: 2008 Was Earth's Coolest Year Since 2000
2009-01-29: Cassini Finds Hydrocarbon Rains May Fill Titan Lakes
2009-01-21: Satellites Confirm Half-Century of West Antarctic Warming
2009-01-14: NASA Climate Scientist Honored by American Meteorological Society
2008
2008-12-08: Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?
2008-10-13: Giant Cyclones at Saturn's Poles Create a Swirl of Mystery
2008-09-10: NASA Study Illustrates How Global Peak Oil Could Impact Climate
2008-05-14: Earth Impacts Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change
2008-03-03: Dr. Robert Jastrow, 1925-2008
2008-01-16: 2007 Was Tied as Earth's Second-Warmest Year
2007
2007-12-17: NASA Climate Change 'Peacemakers' Aided Nobel Effort
2007-08-30: NASA Study Predicts More Severe Storms With Global Warming
2007-05-30: Research Finds That Earth's Climate is Approaching 'Dangerous' Point
2007-05-09: NASA Study Suggests Extreme Summer Warming in the Future
2007-05-08: Cassini Finds that Storms Power Saturn's Jet Streams
2007-04-11: NASA Predicts Non-Green Plants on Other Planets
2007-03-15: Global 'Sunscreen' Has Likely Thinned, Report NASA Scientists
2007-02-12: NASA Study Finds Warmer Future Could Bring Droughts
2007-02-08: 2006 Was Earth's Fifth Warmest Year
2007-01-30: NASA Probes the Sources of the World's Tiny Pollutants
2006
2006-10-24: NASA Looks at Sea Level Rise, Hurricane Risks to New York City
2006-09-25: NASA Study Finds World Warmth Edging Ancient Levels
2006-03-14: NASA Study Links "Smog" to Arctic Warming
2006-03-09: NASA Finds Stronger Storms Change Heat and Rainfall Worldwide
2006-02-28: Scientists Confirm Historic Massive Flood in Climate Change
2006-01-30: Keeping New York City "Cool" is the Job of NASA's "Heat Seekers"
2006-01-24: 2005 Was Warmest Year in Over a Century
2005
2005-08-11: Volcanic Blast Location Influences Climate Reaction
2005-07-18: Methane's Impacts on Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates
2005-06-28: NASA's Cassini Reveals Lake-Like Feature on Titan
2005-05-20: Web Site Explains How Climate Change Affects New York City
2005-05-18: Marshes Tell Story of Medieval Drought, Little Ice Age, and European Settlers near New York City
2005-04-28: Earth's Energy Out of Balance
2005-03-23: Black and White: Soot on Ice
2005-03-09: Cassini Images of Titan Reveal an Active, Earth-like World
2005-02-08: Earth Gets a Warm Feeling All Over
2005-01-10: NASA Scientist Wins AMS Award
2005-01-10: Watching Earth's Climate Change in the Classroom
2004
2004-11-09: NASA Climatologists Named in Scientific American Top 50 Scientists
2004-11-03: Scientists Hunt for Acid Rain and Methane in Wetlands
2004-10-06: Study Shows Potential for Antarctic Climate Change
2004-08-12: Modeling Ocean Behavior: The Key to Understanding Our Future Climate
2003
2003-12-22: Black Soot and Snow: A Warmer Combination
2003-12-05: Saturn Details Become Visible To Cassini Spacecraft
2003-09-03: Ocean Sponging Up Some Warmth Over Next 50 Years
2003-05-13: NASA Finds Soot has Impact on Global Climate
2003-03-20: NASA Study Finds Increasing Solar Trend that Can Change Climate
2003-03-06: Rising Storms Revise Story of Jupiter's Stripes
2003-03-05: NASA Scientist Awarded Distinction of AGU 2003 Fellow
2003-02-10: NASA Goes On-Line with Extra-Tropical Storm Tracks Atlas
2002
2002-10-28: Computer Model Suggests Future Crop Loss Due to Potential Increase in Extreme Rain Events Over Next Century
2002-09-26: Black Carbon Contributes to Droughts and Floods in China
2002-09-19: Climate Change: 50 Years Past and Possible Futures
2002-09-18: Study Finds Thicker Storm Clouds Over Warmer Tropical Waters Affect Climate
2002-06-04: Climate Change May Become Major Player in Ozone Loss
2002-01-31: Fewer Clouds Found in Tropics
2002-01-14: Greenhouse Emissions Growth Slowed Over Past Decade
2001
2001-12-18: New NASA/SGI Supercomputer Brings "Early Spring" to Climate Models
2001-12-10: Methane Explosion Warmed the Prehistoric Earth, Possible Again
2001-12-06: The Sun's Chilly Impact on Earth
2001-11-19: Ocean Circulation Shut Down by Melting Glaciers After Last Ice Age
2001-11-05: Satellites Shed Light on a Warmer World
2001-09-18: El Niño, La Niña Rearrange South Pole Sea Ice
2001-04-23: Greenhouse Gases Main Reason for Quicker Northern Winter Warming
2001-04-17: Wetter Upper Atmosphere May Delay Global Ozone Recovery
2001-03-05: NASA Goddard Scientist to Receive Heinz Award
2001-01-16: The Eastern U.S. Keeps Its Cool While the World Warms
2000
2000-10-05: NASA Scientist Predicts Less Climate Cooling from Clouds
2000-08-29: New Views on the Culprits of Climate Change
2000-06-19: Researchers Take New York City's Temperature
1999
1999-06-04: Scientists Prepare New York City for Future Climate Change
1999-06-02: Warmer and Wetter Winters in Europe and Western North America Linked to Increasing Greenhouse Gases
1999-04-08: Link Between Solar Cycle and Climate is Blowin' in the Wind
1997
1997-12-12: Opportunity to Avoid Extreme Climate Changes within Reach
1997-11-18: Global Land Precipitation Increases in 20th Century
