September 17th, 2024
NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date 

August 2024 set a new monthly temperature record, capping Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The announcement comes as a new analysis upholds confidence in the agency’s nearly 145-year-old temperature record.  June, July and August 2024 combined were

September 3rd, 2024
NASA Study Tallies Carbon Emissions from Massive Canadian Fires 

Stoked by Canada’s warmest and driest conditions in decades, extreme forest fires in 2023 released about 640 million metric tons of carbon, NASA scientists have found. That’s comparable in magnitude to the annual fossil fuel emissions of a large industrialized nation. NASA funded the study as part of its ongoing mission to understand our changing

August 20th, 2024
Artificial Intelligence Used to Identify Methane Emissions 

Geolabe—a prize winner in the 2023 Entrepreneurs Challenge—developed a way to use artificial intelligence to identify global methane emissions. Methane is a greenhouse gas that significantly contributes to global warming, and this promising new technology could provide data to help decision makers develop strategies to mitigate climate change.  The Geolabe team developed a deep learning

August 6th, 2024
Gulf of Mexico ‘Dead Zone’ Larger than Average, Scientists Find

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-supported scientists announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone”—an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life—is approximately 6,705 square miles, the 12th largest zone on record in 38 years of measurement. This figure equates to more than 4 million acres of habitat potentially