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Solar Energy Tracker Powers Down After 17 Years
After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA’s SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued and advanced the agency’s 40-year record of measuring solar irradiance and studying its influence on Earth’s climate.
Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change
A frightening new threat cascades around the world, upending familiar routines, disrupting the global economy, and endangering lives.
New 3D View of Methane Tracks Sources and Movement around the Globe
NASA’s new 3-dimensional portrait of methane concentrations shows the world’s second largest contributor to greenhouse warming, the diversity of sources on the ground, and the behavior of the gas as it moves through the atmosphere.
Peak District Grasslands Hold Key To Global Plant Diversity
In a study published in Nature Plants, the team investigated how some ecosystems can have high biodiversity when all of these plants are competing for the same nutrients.
East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier Has Retreated Almost 3 Miles Over Last 22 Years
East Antarctica’s Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years, and researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are concerned that the shape of the ground surface beneath the ice sheet could make it even more susceptible to climate-driven collapse.
