Aviation is a big deal for climate change. Not only is it a big contributor, but it’s an area where changes to improve efficiency can have a huge impact. For this reason, both private companies and government agencies know this is a great target to both save money and protect … [continued]
2022 effectively tied for Earth’s 5th warmest year since 1880, and the last 9 consecutive years have been the warmest 9 on record. NASA looks back at how heat was expressed in different ways around the world in 2022. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Kathleen Gaeta Editor’s Note: This release was … [continued]
Greenland is home to the planet’s largest ice sheet outside of Antarctica. Observations collected from the ground, air, and space have revealed rapid thinning in the northeast part of this ice sheet that could contribute more to sea level rise than previously thought. “Rivers” of relatively fast-moving ice, known as … [continued]
Solar power is sending robots off to duty on harbor clean-up and other environmental chores.
NASA is interested in how urban heat — its causes, solutions, and impacts on vulnerable communities — can figure into community planning solutions and policymaking.
Four more years of high-resolution imagery data have been released to show the polar regions in stunning detail, thanks to a hard-working team of researchers at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. The new images have been added to eight years of previous data, which introduce the most detailed polar region … [continued]
Space is a tough place to be. People complain online about Texas weather swinging from hot to freezing in mere days or hours (and maybe even display weather that belongs in all four seasons within a week), but just a couple hundred miles above the state, the swings are even … [continued]
NASA says it has created a novel solid state battery that has enough energy and power to be used in electric airplanes and other aeronautical devices.
Electric aircraft have been slow to take flight, but a new burst of momentum is brewing as the firm Eviation launches the first flight of its Alice zero emission aircraft.
A new flow battery for electric vehicles is getting attention from DARPA, NASA, and the US Air Force.
