Plastics | Ocean Literacy | FuseSchool Russell Arnott, a marine biologist at Bath University, is talking about plastic. Plastic is an amazing substance it can be used to make; clothing, food, packaging, car parts and even houses. It's...

2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching more than a century.



But, what is a temperatur

e record?

GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in...

Five hundred years ago the first “orbit” of planet Earth, achieved in the spirit of the first human voyages to the Moon fifty years ago, was undertaken by the Portuguese explorer Magellan, using mission design and...

The monsoon is a seasonal rain and wind pattern that occurs over South Asia (among other places). Through NASA satellites and models we can see the monsoon patterns like never before. Monsoon rains provide important...

"Climate Change and The Global Ocean" is the first episode in the six-part series "Tides of Change", exploring amazing NASA ocean science to celebrate Earth Science Week 2009. We know climate change can affect us, but does climate change...

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Is there a pause in global warming?



There's not really a pause in global warming. Sometimes there's natural fluctuations and we warm up a little faster in one decade and a little slower in another decade, but global warming,...

How does climate change affect humans? That's the question we asked Tom Wagner, Program Scientist for Cryospheric Research at NASA. In four different ways, he says, from rainfall patterns and sea levels rising to food production and...

This animated video is all about earth's only natural satellite - The Moon. Students will love this engaging and interactive video.

Weddell seals are not only adorable, but they can tell scientists a lot about how climate change and conservation efforts are affecting the planet. Over the years, Weddell seal researchers have refined their research methods to better...

Describe the moon Europa? How do we know there are oceans on Europa? Are we searching for life on Jupiters moons?<br/>
Jupiter, The King of Planets, Part 3

An analysis of lunar rocks brought to the earth by US astronauts shows that there are traces of water on the moon. Samples brought back from the moon back in the 1970s reveal ancient droplets of volcanic glass that contain moisture....

California's coastal water is home to one of the rarest creatures in the world: the giant sea bass. Can a "Facebook for fish" help save this endangered species?

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are driving changes in Earth’s climate. But scientists are still trying to answer important

questions about how carbon dioxide emissions get absorbed by the land and the ocean — and...

As higher amounts of carbon dioxide become absorbed by the oceans, some marine organisms are finding it's a struggle to adjust.



The Changing Planet series explores the impact that climate change is having on our planet, and...

It's impossible to say that climate change is responsible for any individual storm or hurricane, but climate change is making these storms stronger. How much stronger? It turns out, Hurricane Harvey is the ideal test case to measure how...

New research led by NASA researchers has found populations of the microscopic marine plants, phytoplankton, have decreased in the Northern Hemisphere. An analysis using a NASA model in combination with ocean satellite data between...

Part 4 of Dr. Garvin's talk includes a hypothetical trip to a near-Earth object, a look at NASA's explorations of our own place in the solar system, planet Earth, and an introduction to what makes Mars such a fascinating place to...

Life. It's the one thing that, so far, makes Earth unique among the thousands of other planets we've discovered. Since the fall of 1997, NASA satellites have continuously and globally observed all plant life at the surface of...

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The more we see other planets, the more the question comes into focus: Maybe we're the weird one? Decades of observing Earth from space has informed our search for signs of habitability and life on exoplanets and even planets...

Geodesy is a field of study that deals with the measurement and representation of the Earth, and it all started when a clever human named Eratosthenes discovered that you could measure the circumference of the Earth by looking down a...

Beautiful images from the MODIS instrument on NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites are used by people all over the world every day. But MODIS is about more than just pretty pictures -- the instrument's contributions to science include a...

Our sister planet Venus could serve as a model for many exoplanets soon to be discovered in the upcoming era of new space telescopes, such as James Webb and others. Venus may have been far more Earth-like...