Blast From the Past: A Modern Lake in an Ancient Crater Famously visible from space, ring-shaped Manicouagan Lake was filled at the dawn of the Space Age when Canada dammed a river to flood a Triassic ...

Recognizing that different people and businesses treat their lawns differently, she had a computer simulate the effect on the water cycle and carbon cycle of different lawn management techniques. The ...

Dirty snow usually melts faster than fresh snow because it absorbs more energy from the Sun, and that’s not just a problem in sooty, gritty cities. Except for some mountains and high plateaus, snow ...

Greening Up Globally: Forests & Farms (Download pdf – 2 MB) April 2019 EO Kids is seeing green! Can people really change the color of our planet? Find out how Earth is greening up from forests and ...

Updated Oct 19, 2019 World of Change: Antarctic Ozone Hole In the early 1980s, scientists began to realize that CFCs were creating a thin spot—a hole—in the ozone layer over Antarctica every spring.

NASA’s role in answering these questions is to provide global satellite observations and related field observations. As of early 2011, two types of satellite instruments were collecting information ...

City pollution may also impact cloud formation and rainfall. “Water vapor doesn’t ordinarily spontaneously condense into drops to form clouds,” says climate scientist Tom Bell, from NASA Goddard Space ...

Observing the Water Cycle Orbiting satellites are now collecting data relevant to all aspects of the hydrologic cycle, including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.

According to Esaias, the changes aren’t just dramatic, they’re also kind of scary. The fertility of most flowering plants, including nearly all fruits and vegetables, depends on animal-mediated ...

Falling For Corn More than one third of the world’s maize (corn) crop is grown in the United States, and the largest share comes from a swath of land across the Midwest. Published Nov 4, 2021 Image of ...

Image Western Mountain Snow Melts Fast and Early A warm and dry spring in the Pacific Northwest quickly depleted the seasonal snowpack, raising concern over summer water supplies and wildland fire ...

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