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 7 of 15)
Gearing Up for an Active 2020 Hurricane Season
Abnormally warm ocean temperatures and a potential La Niña set the stage for an above-average Atlantic hurricane season.
(2020-07-20)
Heat and Fire Scorches Siberia
Fires are raging in eastern Siberia in the midst of an unusually long-lived heat wave.
(2020-06-24)
Simulations Probe Sun's Effects on Climate
A series of model studies analyzed the effect of the solar cycle and varying solar conditions at all wavelengths.
(2020-06-16)
A Fiery Month in Zulia
After dry weather parched the soil and vegetation, large fires burned in the northwestern Venezuela state.
(2020-04-29)
NASA Simulations Explore Habitability of Nearest Exoplanet
Powered by the Discover supercomputer, climate simulations incorporated a dynamic ocean to explore the habitability of Proxima Centauri b.
(2020-02-21)
A Focus on Food Can Help Solve Climate Change
Taking a global food system approach to climate change research -- production, supply chains, and consumption -- is a key step in both adapting to and mitigating climate change.
(2020-02-18)
How Earth Climate Models Help Picture Life on Unimaginable Worlds
Scientists are finding that models developed to study Earth's climate can be used to determine whether exoplanets can support life.
(2020-01-24)
Growth of a Summer Storm
Afternoon thunderstorms are a typical phenomenon during summer in Western Australia.
(2020-01-17)
NASA, NOAA Analyses Reveal 2019 Second Warmest Year on Record
According to independent analyses, Earth's global surface temperature in 2019 was the second warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880.
(2020-01-15)
Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Right
A new evaluation of global climate models used to project Earth's future global average surface temperature finds that most have been quite accurate.
(2020-01-09)
Rising Sea Levels, Frequent Floods: Effects on NYC Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods on NYC's Queens and Brooklyn shorelines will see more frequent "nuisance flooding" as sea levels rise due to climate change.
(2019-09-27)
Smoke Blankets Borneo
Fires burning in peat deposits in Indonesia release gases and particles with consequences for public health and the climate.
(2019-09-17)
