/PRNewswire/ Members of the public are invited to explore the many ways space science helps families, communities, and our nation better understand our home.
Climate change is contributing to hot and dry conditions in the American West, ideal for the spread of fires. An experimental tool can help communities track potential air quality impacts from wildfire smoke.
NASA disasters programme joins Anticipation Hub 18/01/2021 - by the Climate Centre
NASA last week joined the Anticipation Hub created by the German Red Cross, the IFRC and the Climate Centre with support from the German Federal Foreign Office and formally launched last month. The disasters section of the US space agency’s Earth Applied Sciences Program will hope to add “unique perspectives from Earth-observing instruments operating within and above Earth’s atmosphere,” a NASA news story said Friday. “NASA’s participation will…help illustrate how Earth is a complex system that is affected by land use, human activities [and the] social and economic context, as well as weather, water and climate phenomena.”