In a first, a space mission led by NASA and France tracked Earth’s rivers swelling and shrinking from month to month over the course of a year and found significantly less of a swing than previous model-based estimates. A record drought in the Amazon likely influenced the tally made by the Surface Water and Ocean

Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites—and the latest 10 New Insights in Climate Science report delivers a stark warning: the planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, oceans are warming at unprecedented rates, and the

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