Earth science on the space station continues to grow
Credit: NASA.
The number of instruments on the International Space Station dedicated to observing Earth to increase our understanding of our home planet continues to...
Scientists study ocean absorption of human carbon pollution
Posted on 16 February 2017 by John Abraham
As humans burn fossil fuels and release greenhouse gases, those gases enter the atmosphere where they cause...
NASA study identifies new pathway for Greenland meltwater to reach ocean
Credit: NASA.
Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet let one of its aquifers drain to the ocean, new NASA research finds. The aquifers, discovered only...
January 2017 was third-warmest January on record
A map of the January 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly shows that most of North America and Siberia were much warmer than the...
The problem that links business, finance and politics
Once you rely on agents, you create conflicts of interest. And you have to rely on agents
Stockmarkets are confident, banks not so much
Banks have been downgrading their credit ratings of Dow components
NASA, UCI reveal new details of Greenland ice loss
The research ship M/V Cape Race on Greenland's northwest coast during OMG's survey of the seafloor. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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NASA's OMG is the first campaign...
Environmental Pillar supports fracking ban in submission to government
The Environmental Pillar supports the Bill – The Prohibition of Extraction and Exploration of Onshore Petroleum 2016, and recommends that the Committee pass this...
NASA studies a rarity: Growing Louisiana deltas
False-color images of rising tide at Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, made by JPL's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument on Oct. 17, 2016....
NASA hosts media day for Colorado study of snow-bound water resources
NASA will host a media day at 9:30 a.m. MST on Feb. 13 to highlight a field campaign designed to advance new remote-sensing techniques...