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A bird-loving farmer living near Florida’s Pelican Island helped spur the creation of a national system of wildlife refuges.
Several glaciers near Mount Everest have experienced unusual melting this winter.
Scientists with NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are probing deep below the island’s warming coastal waters to help us better predict the rising seas of the future.
Scientists with NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland mission are probing deep below the island’s warming coastal waters to help us better predict the rising seas of the future.
Winds frequently whip up the dust from Chad’s lowest point, but those particles may not fertilize the Amazon as much as scientists once thought.
Multiple seasons of below-average rainfall have affected the country’s drinking water supplies and groundwater reservoirs.
2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.
Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, the year’s globally averaged temperature was 1.84... Read More
Earth’s average temperature has risen more than 1.2°C (2°F) since the late 19th century.
By most accounts, 2020 has been a rough year for the planet. It was the warmest year on record, just barely exceeding the record set in 2016 by less than a tenth of a degree according to NASA’s analysis.
Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessment of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2020 during a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 14.
In spring and summer, conditions are often just right for populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms.
Astronauts will continue to photograph their home whether from low-Earth orbit or, as the Apollo astronauts once did, from the Moon.
The islands of the Juan Fernández Archipelago rival the Galápagos in their abundance of endemic plants.
A popular place for sandboarding, Huacachina is the only natural desert oasis in South America.
