Press Releases
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Smoky Zabaykal’skiy
2025.05.22
Plumes choked Siberian skies as early-season wildland fires burned near a city in eastern Russia.
A Tornado Scars Southern Illinois
2025.05.21
Severe weather swept across the U.S. Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in May 2025, spawning destructive twisters in several states.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: What's Next for NASA Earth Science
2025.05.20
NASA has a record of Earth observations going back more than 50 years. What might be in store for the next 50 years? In this finale of our Earth series, we hear from two scientists helping to chart the course of NASA Earth science.
Forty Years of Change in Louisiana’s Wetlands
2025.05.19
Scientists used Landsat satellite images to detect both abrupt and gradual changes and to examine how phenomena, from storms to sea level rise, have reshaped coastal ecosystems.
Fires Erupt in North American Forests
2025.05.15
Record heat and dry conditions helped stoke several large blazes in Manitoba, Ontario, and Minnesota.
A Smoky Start to Saskatchewan’s Fire Season
2025.05.13
Still early in the fire season, satellites in mid-May observed intense blazes and towering plumes of smoke.
On-Again, Off-Again at Kilauea
2025.05.09
The Hawaiian volcano has been spewing fountains of lava with remarkable frequency.
Spring Flooding in Kazakhstan
2025.05.08
Warm temperatures and spring rains unleashed a surge of water that inundated riverside communities in the northern part of the Central Asian country.
NASA Data Helps Map Tiny Plankton That Feed Giant Right Whales
2025.05.05
In the waters off New England, one of Earth’s rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton — called Calanus finmarchicus — from the sea. These zooplankton, no bigger than grains of rice, are the whale’s lifeline. Only about 370 of these massive creatures remain.
Spawning Spectacle
2025.05.05
A late-season herring spawn in a British Columbia inlet created a vibrant patch of turquoise water.
Arkansas Farmers Face Lingering Floodwaters
2025.05.03
Many growers have been forced to replant as a prolonged flood killed off crops in the Arkansas Delta.
Floods Give Way to a Burst of Desert Life
2025.04.30
Heavy rain in Queensland sent floodwaters coursing through the Australian Outback. Carpets of green emerged in their wake.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: From Space to Your Plate
2025.04.29
Earth has an incredibly varied and ever-changing landscape—jagged mountains, arid deserts, lush rainforests, rolling wheat fields. Before NASA came on the scene, no one was keeping a systematic eye on the ground from above. One long-running satellite program collects the data farmers need to grow the crops that feed the world.
New Jersey Pine Barrens Ablaze
2025.04.25
Fires in these coastal forests can rejuvenate ecosystems but also threaten large numbers of people and homes in the densely populated state.
NASA's Curious Universe Earth Series: The Ocean, Now in Full Color
2025.04.22
Life all over the planet—even far from the coasts—depends on the oceans. A pair of NASA satellites, PACE and SWOT, is giving us a fresh look at Earth’s water. PACE tracks color changes driven by tiny plankton, which give us us a big-picture view of ocean life. By measuring sea level height from space, SWOT shows ocean currents and other features...
Signs of the Season in Pine Island Bay
2025.04.16
A major embayment in West Antarctica saw new sea ice growth in autumn 2025 amid older sea ice that had survived the austral summer melt season.
Blooming British Isles
2025.04.10
The colorful North Atlantic waters visible around the archipelago in April 2025 are likely due to a mix of phytoplankton and suspended sediment.
Building Out Chattanooga
2025.04.10
Signs of urban expansion cover parts of Tennessee’s “scenic city,” which is nestled along the meandering Tennessee River.
Flooding Along the Mississippi
2025.04.09
A slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the Midwest and Southeast and fueled major floods along several of the river’s tributaries.
South Korea Charred by Fire
2025.04.08
Following destructive fires in March 2025, satellite imagery showed burned land stretching more than 80 kilometers toward the coastline in the country’s southeast.
Winter Sea Ice Reached New Lows in the Arctic
2025.04.04
The region’s ice extent on March 22, 2025, was the lowest maximum observed in the satellite record.
Antarctic Sea Ice Plunged in Summer 2025
2025.04.02
The region’s ice extent on March 1 tied for the second-lowest minimum observed in the satellite record.
Mangrove Pioneers
2025.03.31
The right climatic and geographic conditions in the southeastern U.S. have allowed mangroves to migrate northward to Georgia.
Wildland Fires Char U.S. Southeast Forests
2025.03.29
In late March 2025, several blazes burned in the western Carolinas and northeastern Georgia amid windy, dry conditions.
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