News & Feature Articles
Following are news releases, features and updates about research at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies written by NASA news services, GISS personnel, and affiliated offices. (Page 6 of 15)
U.N. Report Spotlights Need to Strengthen Climate Change Adaptation
A report by the U.N. Environment Programme documents how most countries have adopted climate adaptation into their policy and planning, but how well they are doing so is a mixed picture.
(2021-02-25)
NASA Announces New Role of Senior Climate Advisor
The agency has established a new position of senior climate advisor and selected Gavin Schmidt, director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, to serve in the role in an acting capacity.
(2021-02-03)
2020 Tied for Warmest Year on Record, NASA Analysis Shows
Globally, 2020 was the hottest year on record, effectively tying 2016, the previous record. Overall, Earth's average temperature has risen more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s.
(2021-01-14)
Climate Events of 2020 Show How Excess Heat is Expressed on Earth
The events of 2020 are consistent with what models have predicted: extreme climate events such as severe heat waves, larger wildfires and more intense hurricanes are more likely because of greenhouse gas emissions.
(2021-01-14)
Improving Assessments of Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
Impact assessments help identify and quantify risks to the world's food supply as well as evaluate sustainable adaptation and mitigation strategies.
(2021-01-11)
The Drying U.S. West
A serious drought has flared up across half of the United States — a familiar story for the past two decades.
(2020-12-14)
A Destructive Abundance
The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season was supercharged, and not just in raw numbers.
(2020-12-10)
Making Sense of "Climate Sensitivity"
GISS scientists answer questions about a new study that narrows the range of uncertainty in future climate projections.
(2020-09-09)
NASA Scientists Explore Venus Habitable Climate Scenarios at NCCS
GISS scientists leveraged NASA supercomputing resources for several months to model a hypothetical climate history for Venus over the past 4.2 billion years.
(2020-08-28)
Another Intense Summer of Fires in Siberia
Following an active 2019 season, fires in 2020 have again been abundant, widespread, and have produced abnormally large carbon emissions.
(2020-08-07)
GISS Scientists Select Best Institute Paper of 2019
Scientists at NASA/GISS have voted the journal article “Spectral signature of the biosphere: NISTAR finds it in our solar system from the Lagrangian L-1 point” by Barbara Carlson et al. as the top work among 160 research publications by institute staff published in 2019.
(2020-08-07)
In Memoriam, Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko
NASA/GISS remembers our longtime friend and colleague, Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko (1959-2020).
(2020-07-27)
