Sometimes to understand the present, it takes looking to the past. That’s the approach coastal researchers, supported by the NOAA Climate Program Office Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) Program, are taking to pinpoint the causes of extreme sea level changes.

Across two decades, the Terra satellite has been a great leap for Earth system science, observing how different spheres fit together as a whole.

Small satellites, including CubeSats, are playing a growing role in exploration, technology demonstration, scientific research and educational investigations at NASA.

A new analysis of the changing character of runoff, river discharge and other hydrological cycle elements across the North Slope of Alaska reveals significant increases in the proportion of subsurface runoff and cold season discharge, changes the authors say are “consistent with warming and thawing permafrost.”

It’s not just oranges that grow in Florida. Carambola, or star fruit as most in the United States call it, is gaining popularity. 

Maps of forest cover type show where the composition and structure of the forest is sufficient for the threatened species to nest and roost.

Cornell geologists, examining the desolate Vavilov ice cap on the northern fringe of Siberia in the Arctic Circle, have for the first time observed the rapid ice loss from an improbable new river of ice, according to new work in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Finnish peatlands are under a bigger pressure from land use than has generally been realised.

The charred remains of wildfires in waterways could release carbon dioxide long after the blaze has died.

Limiting global warming to a lower level, such as the 1.5°C Paris Agreement target, would substantially relieve populations from precipitation extremes in China, according to a study recently published in Science Bulletin.