Environment
How Animal Movements Help Us Study the Planet
Scientists have been underutilizing a key resource we can use to help us understand Earth: animals. Our fellow Earthlings have…
More Rocket Launches Could Damage the Ozone Layer
There are few things in this world that brings feelings of awe and wonder more than a rocket launch. Watching…
With Funding From Jeff Bezos, MethaneSAT Picks Elon Musk’s SpaceX for 2022 Launch
Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are usually rivals on the final frontier, but they both have a role to…
Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half of its Coral Over the Last 25 Years
A new study found that warmer ocean temperatures driven by climate change have caused Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to lose…
Herbal Earth: Spectacular Vegetation Views of Our Home Planet and the Natural World of Living Green Life
Earth’s Vegetation from Suomi NPP satellite. World map of vegetation data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite (National Polar-orbiting Partnership)…
The Top 5 “Earth as Art” Images, Thanks to Landsat
NASA's first Earth-observing Landsat satellite launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on July 23, 1972, and to celebrate the 40th…
Go an Hour Without Power: Earth Hour 2012
You've seen all the videos and images we've been featuring lately that astronauts on the International Space Station have taken…
How Plants May Have Helped Create Earth’s Unique Landscapes
[/caption] According to conventional thinking, plant life first took hold on Earth after oceans and rivers formed; the soil produced…
As the World Burns: Satellites Watch Fires Around the World
NASA put out this video last week and we missed covering it, but this is a very interesting little video…
Climate Vs. Weather Video
It happens every winter, and even more so during the recent cold snap here in the US: frequently people say,…