Despite what photos suggest, Earth is not perfectly round. Our home planet is actually a lumpy “oblate spheroid” that bulges ...
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A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support ...
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Heat storms have increased dramatically, causing severe global consequences including excess deaths and environmental ...
Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by a much ...
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From floods and wildfires to damage to critical infrastructure, advances in Earth observation are enabling insurers to ...
Statue of Our Lady of Fatima at the Fatima Shrine in Portugal on April 6, 2017. (photo: Daniel Ibanez/CNA) After the ...
The dispute over Earth’s age reaches deeper than one scientific number. At its center is a much bigger argument about ...