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NASA Develops Underwater Robots for Climate Change Research (VIDEO)
According to predictions, by the end of the century, the melting of Antarctic ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise by a meter or more, with serious consequences for hundreds of...
How NASA Has Been Contributing to the Conservation of Animals and Their Habitats for Half a Century
The rise in human population has led to the expansion of urbanization and the occupation of natural habitats. Perhaps the growth of the human population itself is not as significant a problem...
NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
The first of a pair of climate satellites designed to study heat emissions at Earth’s poles for NASA is in orbit after lifting off atop Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from the company’s...
Water Shortages to Be Key Environmental Challenge of the Century, Nasa Warns
Water shortages are likely to be the key environmental challenge of this century, scientists from Nasa have warned, as new data has revealed a drying-out of swaths of the globe between the...
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas
Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third...
NASA Finds New, Frightening Way Glaciers Are Melting in Greenland (PHOTO) (VIDEO)
Scientists have had their eyes on Greenland as its iconic glaciers have begun disappearing due to a warming climate. But, what they didn't expect to see was a whole new type of...
NASA Saves Energy, Water with Modular Supercomputer
The supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA, is using an innovative modular approach that is designed to get researchers the answers that they need, while reducing the high...
NASA Takes Next Step in Green Aviation X-planes Plans
Yesterday, at the 39th meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization, 191 countries reached a global climate deal to reduce carbon emissions from aviation. At the same time, NASA is working to...
NASA Satellite Reveals How Much Saharan Dust Feeds Amazon’s Plants
What connects Earth's largest, hottest desert to its largest tropical rain forest? The Sahara Desert is a near-uninterrupted brown band of sand and scrub across the northern third of Africa. The Amazon...
NASA Images Show the Amazon Could be Facing an Intense Wildfire Season this Year
Conditions created by the strong El Niño event that warmed up Pacific waters in 2015 and early 2016 altered rainfall patterns around the world. In the Amazon basin, that meant reduced rainfall...
Deep Underground Water Reservoir Discovered on Mars
Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have made a significant discovery using data from NASA's InSight research device. They found a massive reservoir of liquid water deep beneath the surface of...
GEOS-U Satellite to Monitor Environmental Hazards
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the GEOS-U satellite into orbit on June 25 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it is expected to...
Hottest May on Record Spurs Call for Climate Action
May 2024 was the warmest May on record, marking the 12th consecutive month in which the global average temperature reached a record value for the corresponding month, according to data from the...
Breathing in Polluted Air in Pregnancy Common Cause of Increasingly Present Mental Illnesses in Children
Numerous scientific studies indicate a connection between polluted air and the occurrence of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, as well as some types of cancer.
However, the potential health problems from breathing in bad...
Satellites in the Service of Economic and Environmental Opportunities
Satellites often inspire me to write about them. Perhaps the reason for the inspiration is that they seem like a long-established concept, that they have always been here and that there is...
Global Temperature Record Streak Continues in April
It was the warmest April on record – the eleventh month in a row of record global temperatures, according to Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Sea surface temperatures have been record...
