18 Fold Increase In Marine Protected Areas Needed
18 FOLD INCREASE IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS NEEDED TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS
Ireland’s Marine Protected Areas must increase 18-fold by the end...
NASA Study Finds Climate Extremes Affect Landslides in Surprising Ways
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The results represent an early step toward developing what researchers hope will become the ability to forecast whether a slow-moving landslide will collapse.
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Testing, Testing: Space-Bound US-European Water Mission Passes Finals
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A rigorous testing program is the best way to ensure that every part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission, down to...
NASA, USGS Map Minerals to Understand Earth Makeup, Climate Change
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These new observations can be used to identify the presence of a wide variety of minerals as well as mineral weathering or alteration.
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2022 Arctic Summer Sea Ice Tied for 10th-Lowest on Record
According to satellite observations, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent (lowest amount of ice for the year) on Sept. 18, 2022. The...
NASA Software Maps Changes in Current and Future Animal Movements
In the face of growing environmental pressures, changing climates, and ecological damage, organisms around the globe have been forced to move from their historic...
Monitoring Ozone in a Warming World
State air quality planning agencies in the U.S. Great Lakes region are now using models custom-designed by NASA to monitor ozone pollution, informing their...
NASA Studies Find Previously Unknown Loss of Antarctic Ice
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New research on Antarctica, including the first map of iceberg calving, doubles the previous estimates of loss from ice shelves and details how...
NASA Data on Plant ‘Sweating’ Could Help Predict Wildfire Severity
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A new study uses data from the ECOSTRESS instrument aboard the space station to better understand why some parts of a wildfire burn...
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere
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The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up temporarily warming Earth’s...
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