In Brief: Such high-tide flooding that inundates roads and buildings along the west coast of the Americas tends to be uncommon outside of El Niño… Read More »NASA Analysis Finds Strong El Niño Could Bring Extra Floods This Winter
In Brief: Methane ‘hot spots’ in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are more likely to be found where recent wildfires burned into the tundra, altering carbon emissions… Read More »NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska
In Brief: NISAR will help researchers explore how changes in Earth’s forest and wetland ecosystems are affecting the global carbon cycle and influencing climate change.… Read More »NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands
In Brief: Scientists using space-based radar found that land in New York City is sinking at varying rates from human and natural factors. A few… Read More »NASA-Led Study Pinpoints Areas of New York City Sinking, Rising
Currently, the temperature in the Northern Hemisphere is higher than it was last year at this time of year, as illustrated by the image below,… Read More »How hot will it get?
[ click on images to enlarge ] Temperatures remain high, as illustrated by the above image, adapted from Copernicus. Meanwhile, El Niño is no longer… Read More »Arctic Sea Ice Alert
For about one year now, global temperature anomalies have been extremely high, as illustrated by the image below, created with a screenshot from Copernicus, showing an… Read More »Have feedbacks taken over?
Temperatures in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) have been very high in 2024 (see black line, image below), much higher than they were at this time… Read More »Very high temperatures in Tropics
The image below shows that temperatures in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) were very high during the second half of April 2024, and these very high temperatures… Read More »Temperatures in the Tropics
The April 2024 temperature was 1.32°C higher than 1951-1980, as illustrated by the above image, created with NASA content. Local anomalies are as high as 6.2°C.… Read More »Temperature rise may soon accelerate even more