Ask NASA: Cool Ways of Studying the Cryosphere
Your browser does not support the video tag. NASA missions are helping scientists study the cryosphere – the many forms of ice found on Earth. video and description courtesy of NASA
Ask NASA: How arctic fires are impacting you (Spoiler Alert: they are)
Your browser does not support the video tag. Wildfires in the Arctic often burn far away from population centers, but their impacts are felt around the globe. From field and laboratory work to airborne campaigns and satellites, NASA is studying how climate change is contributing to more frequent and powerful boreal forest and tundra fires and what that means for… Read more →
Ask NASA: Modeling the retreating Greenland Ice Sheet
Your browser does not support the video tag. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute used data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge to develop a more accurate model of how the Greenland Ice Sheet might respond to climate change in the future, finding that it could generate more sea level rise than previously thought. In the next 50 years,… Read more →
Mississippi sets state record for tornadoes
Last year was another active year for sever weather in Mississippi with a record-setting 115 tornadoes across the state. Multiple rounds of severe weather last spring and again during hte late fall and early winter culminated in the most tornadoes since record-keeping began in 1950. “The previous record was 108 tornadoes, which was set in 2008. Three fatalities occurred this… Read more →
You’re not crazy: It’s not as cold as it was when you were a kid
“I remember when I was a kid, we would get cold like this every few weeks. And it would stick around. Now it is more like every few months. and it only lasts a day or two.” Had someone stop me the other day and ask me when it was going to snow, given the colder temperatures. I said it… Read more →
