NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite soars into space aboard a Delta II rocket, tasked with improving weather forecasts and continuing long-term climate records.
Published Oct 29, 2011
The tiny amount of water vapor in our atmosphere has an outsized influence on the planet as a potent greenhouse gas.
Published Oct 7, 2010
Earth is a water planet. Three-quarters of the planet’s surface covered by ice or oceans, and the sky is filled with clouds.
Published Oct 2, 2010
Water shortages in the Middle East lead to sanitation issues in schools, resulting in periodic school closures. NASA is working to change that.
Published Jul 27, 2018
Remnants of Hurricane Rosa delivered heavy rain and caused flash floods in northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
Published Oct 4, 2018
Natural vegetation and irrigated farmland along the Snake River Plain in Idaho use dramatically different amounts of water during the growing season.
Published Jan 26, 2010
About one third of Earth’s large groundwater basins are being rapidly depleted by human consumption even though we have little accurate data about how much water remains in them.
Published Jul 24, 2015
Using instruments aboard NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite(UARS), scientists measured humidity high in the atmosphere.
Published Mar 16, 2004
These images show how terrestrial water storage in the four major sub-basins of the United States’ Mississippi River basin differed from average in January and July 2005.
Published Jan 26, 2007
Underground channels have supplied towns in southeastern Morocco for centuries.
Published Nov 19, 2016
Following an exceptionally wet January, an atmospheric river carried even more moisture into the region in February.
Published Feb 7, 2020
These images show that the central and eastern Pacific Ocean was unusually cold in December 2010, a tell-tale sign of La Niña. The associated rainfall map shows that La Niña was impacting weather in parts of the globe.
Published Dec 24, 2010
Scientists have a new tool for understanding Earth’s weather and climate.
Published Nov 21, 2017
In much of the world, differences in seasonal precipitation—and in how that water gets stored on land—are big enough to affect Earth’s gravity field.
Published Oct 22, 2010
This sea surface temperature anomaly causes strange summer weather around the world, such as drought in the Mid-Atlantic states, cool temperatures in California, and rain in Indonesia.
Published Jun 10, 1999
