In the wake of a winter storm that blanketed numerous U.S. states with snow and ice, unusually low temperatures gripped a large swath of the nation east of the Rockies in late January 2026. The cold spell was notable for severity, longevity and geographic scope.  This image compares surface air temperatures across part of the

The European Space Agency’s innovative Biomass satellite is now fully commissioned, opening free access to a powerful new stream of data that promise a step change in our understanding of forest dynamics and their role in regulating the global carbon cycle.  This image from the Biomass mission depicts a transect of estimated forest carbon content, in tonnes

Science teams at NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) have released the first-ever global estimate of river discharge and suspended sediment, as observed from space, marking a new milestone in our ability to understand one of Earth’s most fundamental systems.   Developed using data from the Surface Water and Ocean Topography

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it’s vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short-term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane monitoring in