... , pilots and residents of eastern Baffin Island are being asked to watch for rubber duckies - not bobbing in their bathtubs, but drifting in the Davis Strait as part of a NASA study on climate change.
A new NASA study shows that the rising frequency and intensity of arctic storms over the last half ... to atmospheric forcing, a great test bed for studies like ours. Sea ice is a bellwether of climate ...
A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a ... 1970 with rises in temperatures during that period. The study, to be published May 15 in the journal Nature, concludes ...
Scientists at UAHuntsville helped design (and will lead the ground team keeping track of) NASA's new GLAST Burst Monitor, an instrument scheduled to be rocketed into orbit next month to help ...
The U.S. space agency is set to launch a three-week study into how fires in Canada's boreal forest contribute to Arctic pollution and affect climate change.
... -caused aerosols," said study co-author Lorraine Remer, a physical scientist at NASA's Goddard ... Remer's team used aerosol and cloud observations from NASA's Terra satellite of the Amazon during the 2005 ...
Using a novel theoretical approach, researchers from NASA and other institutions have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles from burning of ...
NASA is studying how it might keep shuttles flying beyond 2010.
... dioxide since the pre-industrial era. Now, NASA researchers have identified feasible emission scenarios ... Kharecha and James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York considered ...
GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency scientists say they are studying a heat shield used 42 years ago on an Apollo space mission to develop more modern shields.
... tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
... clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
... fever in northeast Africa, according to a new study led by NASA scientists. Rift Valley fever ... -derived vegetation data set--processed at NASA Goddard and called the Normalized Difference Vegetation ...
... in development, successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley fever in northeast Africa, according to a new study led by NASA scientists.
... year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma, according to a new NASA/university study. The cyclone became Burma's worst natural disaster ever and one of the deadliest ...