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NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands

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. Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into...

See SWOT Mission’s Unprecedented View of Global Sea Levels

This animation shows global sea level data collected by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite from July 26 to Aug. 16. Red and orange indicate higher-than-average ocean heights, while blue represents lower-than-average heights. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In...

NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska
NASA Flights Link Methane Plumes to Tundra Fires in Western Alaska

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 from the land. In Alaska’s largest river delta, tundra that has been scorched by wildfire is emitting more...

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands

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. Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into...

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands

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. Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into...

NASA-ISRO Radar Mission to Provide Dynamic View of Forests, Wetlands

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. Once it launches in early 2024, the NISAR radar satellite mission will offer detailed insights into...

Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15 2024
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #15 2024

Open access notables Global carbon emissions in 2023, Liu et al., Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Annual global CO2 emissions dropped markedly in 2020 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, decreasing by 5.8% relative to 2019 (ref. 1). There were hopes that green...

EGU2024 – Picking and chosing sessions to attend virtually
EGU2024 – Picking and chosing sessions to attend virtually

This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place as a fully hybrid conference in both Vienna and online from April 15 to 19. I decided to join the event virtually this year for the full week and I've already picked several sessions...

Climate Adam: Is Global Warming Speeding Up?
Climate Adam: Is Global Warming Speeding Up?

This video includes conclusions of the creator climate scientist Dr. Adam Levy. It is presented to our readers as an informed perspective. Please see video description for references (if any). Thanks to climate change, 2023 has shattered heat records, and 2024 is...