Climate Change Stories

Pink Penguin Guano Provides Diet Clues

The color of Adélie penguin droppings reveals what the birds are eating, offering scientists a way to track how sea ice conditions influence their diet.

Olympic Mountain Glory

Snow-capped mountains carved by deep river valleys preside over northwestern Washington state.

New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights  

The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.

Fans of the Arctic

Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.

Tyndall’s Trail of Bergs

Ice splintered off the southern Patagonia glacier and drifted across a growing glacial lake.

NASA Satellites Help Map Ocean Nutrient Stress 

Editor’s note: This article was updated on June 5. A new study combining NASA satellite observations, ocean surveys, and genetic testing on marine microorganisms found evidence that warming ocean waters may be limiting nutrient availability across much of the global…

Tracy Arm’s Post-Tsunami Landscape

A landslide-triggered tsunami stripped vegetation from the shore of the glacial fjord in summer 2025.

A Sea of Spinning Clouds

Icy, isolated Peter I Island stirred up a show in the atmosphere off the West Antarctic coast.

Record-Setting Retreat of Hektoria Glacier

Scientists relied on satellite data to understand how the Antarctic glacier lost so much ice so rapidly.