Tag: Earth Science

Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite obtained visible imagery of ...

NASA’s Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone

Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just ...

Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of water, fossil detective unveils

Credit: James Lamsdell Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West ...

Scientists map freshwater transport in the Arctic Ocean

Credit: Alexander Osadchiev et al./Scientific Reports The Ob, Yenisei, and Lena rivers flow into the Kara and Laptev seas and ...

Rebirth of a volcano

For the first time, long-term photogrammetic series document the "life cycle" of a volcano. The analyses shows that volcanoes have ...

NASA infrared imagery shows Tropical Storm Rene’s seesaw of strength

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Tropical Storm Rene weakened to a tropical depression late on Sept. 8 but regained tropical storm ...

NASA infrared imagery shows wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Paulette

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Paulette has run into wind shear that is pushing the bulk of clouds and showers away ...

Consequences of the 2018 summer drought

Research team with participation from Göttingen University investigates effects on plants, forests and grasslandCredit: Alexander Knohl The drought that hit ...

A new study of ocean salinity finds substantial amplification of the global water cycle

Credit: Figure adapted from NASA (https://gpm.nasa.gov/education/water-cycle) Water and its movements within or between atmosphere, land, and ocean defines the global ...

Iron is to blame for carbon dioxide emissions from soil, says a soil scientists from RUDN

Credit: RUDN University Iron minerals and bacteria can be the main agents of carbon dioxide emissions from the soil. A ...

California’s creek fire creates its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud

Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big ...

Plant Science Research Network releases decadal vision 2020-2030

Research network presents action plan for the plant science community to maximize impact on pressing global issues such as human ...

NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP captures fires and aerosols across America

Credit: NOAA/NASA On Sep. 07, 2020, NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite provided two different views of how fires are affecting the ...

NASA-NOAA satellite tracking record-breaking Tropical Storm Paulette

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a ...

NASA-NOAA satellite sees new Tropical Storm Rene drenching Cabo Verde islands

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible ...

NASA satellites catch Typhoon Haishen before and after landfall

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Formerly a typhoon, Tropical Storm Haishen made landfall in South Korea on Monday, Sept. 2 and ...

Fossil growth reveals insights into the climate

Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Opole examined bones of the puzzling Panthasaurus maleriensisCredit: Elzbieta M. Teschner Panthasaurus maleriensis ...

Lockdown did not reduce “most harmful” type of air pollution in Scotland

Credit: University of Stirling The significant reduction in vehicle journeys during the COVID-19 lockdown did not reduce the level of ...

Climate change will decimate Palm Springs, Coachella Valley tourism

Study: good weather days to significantly decreaseCredit: Michal Wisniowski A new UC Riverside study finds that climate change will have ...

NASA satellite finds Haishen now a super typhoon