Researchers Become “Beaver Believers” After Measuring the Impacts of Rewilding
Ecologists and ranchers alike know that rivers and streams with healthy beaver populations support more biodiversity, are more drought resilient, and keep water available on the land for more days of...
View ArticleNASA Data Helps Bangladeshi Farmers Save Water, Money, Energy
With nearly 170 million residents, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations in the world. Nearly half of its residents work on or live around farms, and rice crops are critical to...
View ArticleSTELLA: NASA’s DIY Educational Gadget for Measuring Plant Health
5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) On her morning walk to school, a high schooler notices a patch of greenery in her neighbor’s yard. But the plants don’t...
View ArticleVerdant Farmlands of Simsbury, Connecticut
NASA/Joshua Stevens; USGS The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 captured this image of Simsbury, Connecticut on September 15, 2022. Martin Luther King Jr. and other students from Morehouse College...
View ArticleNASA Open Science Initiative Expands OpenET Across Amazon Basin
An image of croplands in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; an area the Large-Scale Hydrology Research Group hosted at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil expects could benefit from the...
View ArticleTracking Spring Flooding
Rivers swelled in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan in April 2024 following heavy rain and rapid snowmelt. This image shows Orenburg on April 13, the day river levels peaked. This scene was...
View ArticleNASA Selects Raytheon Company to Build Landsat Next Instruments
Credits: NASA NASA selects Raytheon Company to provide three instruments and related services, with an option for one additional instrument, in support of the Landsat Next mission based at NASA’s...
View ArticleTelfer Mine, Western Australia
NASA/Michala Garrison, USGS Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager-2 captured this image of the open pits and ponds of Telfer Mine and the surrounding rust-colored soil on Dec. 15, 2023. The soils have a...
View ArticleTundra Vegetation to Grow Taller, Greener Through 2100, NASA Study Finds
4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Warming global climate is changing the vegetation structure of forests in the far north. It’s a trend that will continue...
View ArticleA Particular Lenticular Cloud
New Zealand’s stunning scenery has famously provided the backdrop for fictional worlds in fantasy films. A unique cloud that forms over the Otago region of the country’s South Island also evokes the...
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