Tag Archives: Satellites

#ClimateChange: A global challenge requires a global perspective – #EarthObservation ————— Video text: The ice on Greenland is melting four times faster than was predicted. Ancient glaciers are rapidly disappearing Greenland has lost 200 billion tonnes of ice every year since 2002. This would be enough to submerge all of …

Don Osborne, CEO of EarthAnalytics Daily, joins BIV publisher and editor-in-chief Kirk LaPointe to look at the launch of its 10-satellite constellation to mitigate supply chain issues and provide disaster prevention, including climate change. source

How does NASA combat climate change? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about renewable energy, geoengineering, and how science is helping us battle the climate crisis with NASA Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, Katherine Calvin. What are NASA’s plans to combat climate …

Ahead of Earth day, the Director of NASA’s Earth science division reflects on what she sees as one of the most useful instruments used to better understand our planet – satellites. (April 21) Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Website: https://apnews.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP Facebook: https://facebook.com/APNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ ​ You can …

[ad_1] NASA satellites have provided more data than ever before on what has been happening to Antarctica and Greenland’s ice over the past 16 years with dire, if not entirely unexpected, findings. Both polar ice sheets are losing billions of tonnes of ice every year and adding to sea-level rise. The results revealed that although …

[ad_1] Satellites can be used to successfully identify plastics floating on the surface of the sea, a study has found, with the potential to help ocean clean-ups. Data from the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellites was used to develop the method, which allows aggregations of plastic pieces and items such …