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2015
A still-growing El Niño set to bear down on U.S.
Methane emissions in Arctic cold season higher than expected
Last month was hottest November on record
Study: Climate change rapidly warming world's lakes
Examining the global impacts of the 2015 El Niño
How NASA sees El Niño effects from space
Historic climate agreement adopted at COP21 summit in Paris
The EPIC view of high clouds, Saharan dust
Study suggests carbon content of temperate forests overestimated
Operation IceBridge completes twin polar campaigns
2015 and 1997 El Niños: Déjà vu or something new?
As Earth warms, NASA targets ‘other half' of carbon, climate equation
A breathing planet, off balance
Seven case studies in carbon and climate
In Greenland, another major glacier comes undone
Media briefing on carbon's role in Earth's future climate
Study: Mass gains of Antarctic ice sheet greater than losses
NASA to fly, sail north to study plankton-climate change connection
NASA finds new way to track ocean currents from space
How TIMED flies: Unexpected trends in carbon data
Movement decreasing for portion of Greenland Ice Sheet
GRACE satellites evaluate drought in southeast Brazil
Excitement grows as carbon sleuth begins year two
Borneo on fire
2015 Antarctic maximum sea ice extent breaks streak of record highs
Studying 2015 El Niño event as never before
Mission helps answer: What is a forest?
Mission to test 'greener' spacecraft fuel on track for launch
Background ozone a major issue in U.S. West
Study shows oceanic phytoplankton declines in Northern Hemisphere
NASA to fly parallel science campaigns at both poles
The hidden meltdown of Greenland
Arctic sea ice reaches fourth lowest extent in the satellite record
Arctic sea ice minimum extent reached, El Niño link unclear
Caltech calls for 'crazy new science' to save the planet
Study contrasts effects of two types of SoCal fires
NASA's front porch view of rising seas
TES satellite instrument gives new insight into water cycle
Soil moisture radar ends operations, mission science continues
NASA's summer research on sea level rise in Greenland
Greenland campaign takes flight to measure ice sheet
NASA to study Arctic climate change ecosystem impacts
OMG mission maps Greenland's coastline
The fingerprints of sea level rise
Warming seas and melting ice sheets
NASA zeroes in on ocean rise: How much? How soon?
Researchers find link between Amazon fires and devastating hurricanes
NASA holds media opportunities to discuss rising sea levels
Taking stock of 2014 fire emissions
Simulation indicates ancient flood volcanoes could have altered climate
In Africa, more smoke leads to less rain
El Niño conditions are growing stronger
Just 5 questions: Sea surface topography
California 'rain debt' equal to average full year of precipitation
Study: Fire seasons getting longer, more frequent
Scientists link earlier melting of snow to dark aerosols
The SAM experiment, launched 40 years ago, opened an era of atmospheric discoveries
Sunny, with a chance of nuclear bullets
Greenland's undercut glaciers melting faster than thought
Europe and Pacific Northwest face record heat
Oceans temporarily slowed global temperature rise
In Alaska's ‘last frontier,' climate change provides new horizons for invasive species
Satellites track Earth's water movements to help complete climate picture
Alaska's biggest (ice) losers are inland
Turkish glaciers shrink by half
NASA, NOAA invite social media to cover Jason-3 launch
Keeping an eye on coral reef health from space
Our 'Tomorrowland': NASA advancing the future on Earth and in space
Jason-3 satellite arrives at California launch site
International spacecraft carrying Aquarius instrument ends operations
NASA 'eyes' study Louisiana's changing wetlands
Study: A third of big groundwater basins in distress
NASA releases detailed global climate change projections
Fourteen years of carbon monoxide from MOPITT
NASA/JPL bring sights and sounds to World Science Festival
NASA challenges civic hackers to focus on climate change
Soil moisture mission begins science operations
LEAPTech demonstrates electric propulsion technologies
It's the final act for Larsen B Ice Shelf
Airborne mission to focus on polar winds
River of desert dust feeds Amazon forests
The atmospheric surf zone
Earth Venture mission to find missing ‘average' atmosphere
Bringing NASA satellite data down to Earth
Longer melt season a game changer for Arctic mammals
NASA climate wins 2 Webby Awards
Soil moisture mission produces first global maps
Jason-3 will add to record of the sea's rise and fall
Caltech student fathers breakthrough in green chemistry
Twelve years of satellite data help decode climate change
Scientists take aim at Four Corners methane mystery
NASA celebrates Earth Day with public events, online activities
Arctic moisture on the move
On Earth Day, show NASA how there's #NoPlaceLikeHome
The 2013-2014 polar vortex adds data points to the books
California Tuolumne snowpack 40 percent of worst year
Air quality: A tale of three cities
It's 'full spin ahead' for soil moisture mapper
Bigger thunderstorms are bringing more rain to the tropics
Historical satellite images reveal snow is melting earlier in Wyoming
New soil moisture mapper goes for a spin
2015 Arctic sea ice maximum annual extent is lowest on record
New mission to study ocean color, airborne particles and clouds
Study sees new threat to East Antarctic ice
Let it go! SMAP almost ready to map frozen soil
Bangladesh to use SERVIR satellite-based flood forecasting, warning system
Going hot and cold in February
Soil moisture mapper takes first 'SMAPshots'
Better Homes and Martians
First global rainfall and snowfall map from new Earth mission released
New space cowboy successfully deploys its 'lasso'
New Earth science missions expand view of our home planet
Why so many global temperature records?
Briefing to highlight results from new Earth missions
NASA science leads New York City Climate Change 2015 Report
Carbon emissions could dramatically increase risk of U.S. megadroughts
Study shows global sea ice diminishing, despite Antarctic gains
Caltech seeks cleantech for competition
Scientist advances laser technology to measure methane
Suitcase-size instrument to measure emissions from melting permafrost
In search of an Arctic 'holy grail'
Satellites spot fields idled by drought
Global is the new local: Pollution changes clouds, climate downstream
SMAP will track a tiny cog that keeps cycles spinning
Data peers into Greenland's ice sheet
Five things about SMAP
Subglacial lakes seen refilling in Greenland
SMAP observatory ready for launch
2014 warmest year in modern record
Visualization shows rapid decline of Arctic sea ice
Mountaintop sensor finds high methane over LA
Rivers are draining Greenland quickly
NOAA's DSCOVR to provide 'EPIC' views of Earth
Technology innovations spin SMAP into space

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