NASA News & Feature Releases

Following are news and feature releases prepared by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) news and communications offices and by other NASA news services in connection with research and events at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Please see the GSFC Latest Features for other Goddard research news, or visit the NASA Featured News page sites for news from around NASA.

News and media professionals should address inquiries about GISS research to Peter Jacobs, Earth science communications lead at the GSFC Communications Office.

2023

2023-10-13: NASA September 2023 Temperature Data Shows Continued Record Warming

2023-09-14: NASA Announces Summer 2023 Hottest on Record

2023-08-14: NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880

2023-08-10: NASA Study Reveals Compounding Climate Risks at Two Degrees of Warming

2023-07-25: NASA Selects Cross Divisional Teams for Astrobiology Research

2023-07-20: NASA Offers Many Resources to Monitor Climate Change

2023-07-13: NASA Finds June 2023 Hottest on Record

2023-02-08: NASA Selects Scientific Support for Goddard Institute for Space Studies

2023-01-31: Dorothy Peteet One of Four NASA Staff Named AAAS Fellows

2023-01-12: NASA Says 2022 Fifth Warmest Year on Record, Warming Trend Continues

2022

2022-11-22: 5 Ways Supercomputing is Key to NASA Mission Success

2022-11-17: NASA Study: Massive Volcanism May Have Altered Ancient Venus' Climate

2022-05-05: NASA's Cynthia Rosenzweig Receives 2022 World Food Prize

2022-03-21: NASA Researcher Finding Ways to Turn Down the Heat in Cities

2022-02-02: NASA-Funded Study Extends Period When Mars Could Have Supported Life

2022-01-13: 2021 Tied for 6th Warmest Year in Continued Trend, NASA Analysis Shows

2022-01-13: Six Questions to Help You Understand the 6th Warmest Year on Record

2021

2021-11-17: Reducing Emissions to Mitigate Climate Change Could Yield Dramatic Health Benefits by 2030

2021-11-16: NASA Study Traces Decade of Ammonia Air Pollution in Africa

2021-11-01: Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years, NASA Study Finds

2021-09-08: NASA Drought Research Shows Value of Both Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

2021-09-01: Climate Change and Its Environmental Impacts on Crop Growth

2021-08-20: Drought Makes its Home on the Range

2021-08-11: NASA Helps Prep Central America for Hurricane Disasters to Come

2021-08-06: NASA Scientist Christian Braneon Receives AXA Award for Climate Science

2021-03-18: NASA Joins White House National Climate Task Force

2021-02-03: NASA Study Finds Reduced African Grassland Fires Contribute to Short-lived Air Quality Improvements

2021-02-03: NASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor

2021-01-14: 2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows

2021-01-14: Climate Events of 2020 Show How Excess Heat is Expressed on Earth

2020

2020-07-27: In Memoriam, Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko

2020-01-24: How Earth Climate Models Help Scientists Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds

2020-01-15: NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record

2019

2019-07-09: A Drier Future Sets the Stage for More Wildfires

2019-06-13: Earth's Freshwater Future: Extremes of Flood and Drought

2019-05-23: New Studies Increase Confidence in NASA's Measure of Earth's Temperature

2019-05-09: NASA Education Program Fosters Climate of Discovery

2019-05-01: NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years

2019-02-06: 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend, According to NASA, NOAA

2018

2018-06-25: Will We Know Life When We See It? NASA-led Group Takes Stock of the Science

2018-01-18: Long-Term Warming Trend Continued in 2017: NASA, NOAA

2017

2017-11-15: Our Living Planet Shapes the Search for Life Beyond Earth

2017-10-19: New NASA Study Improves Search for Habitable Worlds

2017-10-03: Goddard Institute for Space Studies Scientist Wins 2017 Nordberg Award

2017-08-10: NASA Airborne Mission Returns to Africa to Study Smoke, Clouds

2017-08-02: Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere

2017-06-12: NASA-MIT Study Evaluates Efficiency of Oceans as Heat Sink, Atmospheric Gases Sponge

2017-05-25: A Whole New Jupiter: First Science Results from NASA's Juno Mission

2017-05-11: NASA Study Finds Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere Around “Warm Neptune”

2017-04-28: NASA Awards Goddard Institute For Space Studies Contract

2017-03-29: NASA-University Study Finds 11 Percent of Disappearing Groundwater Used to Grow Internationally Traded Food

2017-01-18: NASA, NOAA Data Show 2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally

2016

2016-11-16: From NYC to Rio: NASA Helps Cities Address Climate Risks

2016-10-12: Cynthia Rosenzweig — “What If and So What? Climate Change and Corn/Wheat/Rice/Soybeans

2016-08-23: To Better Understand Mega-Eruptions, Just Add Water

2016-08-11: NASA Climate Modelers: Venus May Have Been Habitable

2016-08-01: Severe 2015 Indonesian Fire Season Linked to El Niño Drought

2016-07-19: 2016 Climate Trends Continue to Break Records

2016-05-04: Expanding Tropics Pushing High Altitude Clouds Towards Poles

2016-05-03: Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Will Help and Hurt Crops

2016-03-21: Climate Change Shifting Wine Grape Harvests in France and Switzerland

2016-03-01: NASA Finds Drought in Eastern Mediterranean Worst of Past 900 Years

2016-01-20: NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal Record-Shattering Global Warm Temperatures in 2015

2015

2015-12-18: Examination of Earth's Recent History Key to Predicting Global Temperatures

2015-09-16: NYCRI Students Team with Teachers and NASA Scientists

2015-08-10: Three NASA Scientists Honored as AGU Fellows

2015-05-12: No Major U.S. Hurricane Landfalls in Nine Years: Luck?

2015-04-21: NASA GISS to Help Lead Search for Habitable Exoplanets

2015-03-25: Increased Rainfall in Tropics Caused by More Frequent Big Storms

2015-02-17: NASA Science Leads New York City Climate Change 2015 Report

2015-02-12: NASA Study Finds Carbon Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Risk of U.S. Megadroughts

2015-01-16: NASA, NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record

1997-2014

NASA releases about GISS research for the years before 2015 are available in the archive directory.

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