When a hurricane approaches, providing a few extra hours’ notice can be the difference between life and death. 

The tenth named tropical cyclone of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was named today, Aug. 13, after NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a nighttime image of the storm.

Views from above show the extent of change across Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park.

NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a night-time image of Elida in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that helped confirm the storm had weakened to a post-tropical cyclone.

Arctic sea ice melted to record lows.

The globe had another year where all-time records were either challenged or broken, as 2019 ranked among the world’s hottest.

Even if the climate cools, study finds, glaciers will continue to shrink.

The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon. 

Tropical Depression 06W has been around for days, and continues to hold together as it moves in a westerly direction toward Taiwan in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. 

NASA’s Aqua satellite obtained visible imagery of Hurricane Elida in the Eastern Pacific as it continued to weaken.