Earth Observation
Forest Fires in British Columbia are Bad This Year. THIRTY Times Worse Than Average
Wildfires in British Columbia and Canada, driven by Climate Change, established new records this year.
Phew, California’s Largest Reservoir is Nearly Full
California residents will be glad to know their reservoirs are nearly full again after years of drought. New satellite photos…
Mount Everest from Space
Earth is a favorite target for the cameras and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This week, NASA shared…
Why are Earth’s Hemispheres the Same Brightness? New Research Solves a 50-year-old Mystery.
NASA’s Apollo program most notably explored the Moon. But it also helped us study the Earth as well, as it…
Light Pollution is Obscuring the Night Sky. RIP Stargazing
A citizen science initiative called Globe at Night has some sobering news for humanity. Our artificial light is drowning out…
NASA Satellites can Pinpoint the Exact Locations of Excessive CO2 Emissions
Using data from two climate monitoring satellites, a group led by Canadian researchers tracked carbon emissions from a single coal…
NOAA’s New Weather Satellite is Operational, and its Pictures of Earth are Gorgeous
You'd have to be in some kind of sense-of-wonder-repressed coma not to appreciate satellite images of Earth. If you are,…
Good News! The Ozone Hole is Continuing to Shrink
Most of us don't think about ozone as we go about our daily lives. Yet, this pale blue gas plays…
If Earth Were an Exoplanet, it Would Still be Tricky to Figure Out if There’s Life Here
How would Earth appear to alien astronomers? What would their observations tell them about Earth if they searched the heavens…
The Methane Released From the Damaged Nord Stream Pipeline is Visible From Space
On September 26, 2022, leaks were discovered in the underwater Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, located near Denmark…