Fires Char New Guinea

Emissions on both sides of the island are unusually high as human-set fires spread in a landscape parched by drought.

NASA’s CASALS Instrument Bridges Gaps in 3D Maps of Earth’s Surface

From orbit, today’s space-based laser instruments measure Earth’s forests and terrain one narrow line at a time. Between those lines…

Extratropical Cyclone Whips Past Iceland

The powerful low-pressure system formed over the North Atlantic out of the remnants of Hurricane Isaias.

NASA’s SR-1 Freedom Advances with Progress on Nuclear Power Module

Destined for Mars and beyond, NASA’s Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) Freedom will be humanity’s first fission-powered spacecraft to travel outside Earth’s…

Fires Arrive in the Amazon Rainforest

During El Niño, a cascade of fires across the tropics begins in equatorial Asia and continues in the central and…

NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity’s Return to Moon

If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know…

Hurricane Simon Lurks Off the Mexican Coast

Though it remained offshore, the storm lashed coastal areas with high winds and flooding—and produced remarkable rippling patterns in the…

Rains Swamp the Gandak River

After days of torrential rain, the river rose to record-breaking levels in parts of Nepal and India.

Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific

Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.