A visualization shows ocean currents circulating Pine Island Bay and flowing under Pine Island Glacier.

A quick guide to the science behind sea level rise from an ice-loss perspective, what it means in relatable terms and why it matters.

NASA explores. From its earliest days of sounding rockets and balloon-borne instruments, to Apollo and Hubble and missions to Mars. This mission of exploration has also always focused on our own corner of the universe, Earth - the home frontier. Earth is still the only planet we've ever been to, as this video explains.

This movie shows the evolution of several regions of the Greenland Ice Sheet between 2008 and 2300 based on three different climate scenarios.

Karen St. Germain, NASA's director of Earth science, gave a presentation at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Video: Global sea level rise is accelerating incrementally over time rather than increasing at a steady rate.

Video: total sea level change between 1992 and 2014, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites.

This video shows the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) during a single calendar year.

Earth has about 370,000,000,000,000,000,000 (quintillion) gallons of water, with some sources easier to access and use than others. The water budget tells us where that water is – key information that helps better plan for the future.

Trick or treat? How many pumpkins would it take to equal the mass of the world’s annual fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions? Hint: This isn’t a trick 👻

This visualization shows that as land temperatures have increased since 1950, hotter days have become more common and colder days have become less common.

This visualization shows sea surface temperature (SST) data from January 2016 through March 2020.

Aprende cómo se desplaza el dióxido de carbono alrededor de la Tierra. Además, el archivo descargable incluye una página con definiciones de términos.

This animated map shows monthly temperature anomalies (changes from an average) from summer 1880 to summer 2023 measured with respect to NASA's 1951-1980 baseline period.

Take a 360-degree view of an iceberg and sea ice during Operation IceBridge flights over Greenland.

Animación simplificada del efecto invernadero.

Ubicada en el Ártico cerca del Polo Norte, la isla de Groenlandia está cubierta por una enorme capa de hielo equivalente a tres veces el tamaño de Texas y de 1,6 kilómetros (una milla) de profundidad en promedio.

Antes de la Revolución Industrial, el clima de la Tierra cambiaba debido a eventos naturales como la actividad volcánica y las variaciones de la energía solar.

This animation compares sea surface salinity (saltiness) data from two NASA datasets from 2015 to 2017.

Animation showing changes in Greenland ice mass since 2002 based on satellite data.

This visualization presents methane emissions across the United States for the year 2012.

Carbon dioxide is the main heat-trapping greenhouse gas that humans emit. How much do you know about it and its impact on global warming and climate change?

Satellite scatterometer missions make essential measurements to support weather and marine forecasting. Learn more about how they work, why they measure ocean winds, and what the QuikScat mission accomplished during its time in orbit.

Color-coded map of changing global surface temperature anomalies from 1880 through 2022. 

Video: NASA scientists release the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012.