NASA's Grace helps monitor U.S. drought

11.30.11 By Kelly Helm Smith, National Drought Mitigation Center and Adam Voiland, NASA's Earth Science News Team New groundwater and so...

First light for NPP satellite

An image taken by the NPP Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on Nov. 21, 2011. This high-resolution image is wrapped on a glob...

The end of the IceBridge

11.29.11 By Alan Brown, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center NASA's DC-8 airborne science laboratory has completed its 2011 Operation IceB...

Worldwide Emissions of CO2: Background for the Durban Conference

Summary .   Energy use by developing countries of the world increased dramatically between 1972 and 2008.   During this period energy use by...

To the ends of the Earth

A close-up image of the crack spreading across the ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier shows the details of the boulder-like blocks of ice that...

The Annual U. N. Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa

Summary .   The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will convene its next conference at Durban , South Africa from Novemb...