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How climate change turned Sao Paulo's drizzle into a storm
Apr 29, 2025 (AFP)
Such was Sao Paulo's reputation for "garoa" -- a fine evening drizzle caused by damp air from the nearby coast colliding with the city's cool climes -- that fam...
NASA Announces Call for New Computing Approaches to Earth Science
Apr 28, 2025 (SPX)
The agency's Beyond the Algorithm Challenge, sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Technology Office, asks for proposals to more rapidly and accurately understand o...
USSF declares WSF-M weather satellite operational with initial capability milestone
Apr 28, 2025 (SPX)
After launching the WSF-M (Space Vehicle-1) last year, Space Systems Command (SSC) conducted extensive operational testing to verify data quality, ground system...
Trump admin cuts 'mean more dirty air': advocacy group
Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)
Plans to lay off hundreds of employees would eliminate the scientific arm of the EPA, which tackles environmental issues including pollution and climate change....
EarthDaily Prepares to Launch Advanced Change Detection Satellite
Apr 14, 2025 (SPX)
Designed to set a new standard in broad-area change detection, the EarthDaily Constellation comprises ten high-performance satellites. Once operational, the con...
Weather satellite operational, completes fleet to forecast severe storms on Earth
Apr 08, 2025 (UPI)
GOES-19 satellite replaces GOES-16 to cover the GOES East orbit 22,236 miles above Earth's equator. It also completes NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environme...
Hunga volcano eruption cooled, rather than warmed, the Southern Hemisphere
Apr 03, 2025 (SPX)
The reason: The eruption formed smaller sulfate aerosols that had an efficient cooling effect that unexpectedly outweighed the warming effect of the water vapor...
New geointelligence tool streamlines land mapping and resource planning
Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)
The technique merges two core components: Brazil's Data Cube architecture, developed by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and the Geographic Obj...
ESA's mini weather mission exceeds expectations
Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)
This compact prototype, developed on a tight schedule and modest budget, has impressed experts with its ability to generate temperature and humidity profiles ri...
IRIDE satellite captures first high resolution image over Italy
Mar 30, 2025 (SPX)
Captured by the Pathfinder Hawk microsatellite on March 5, 2025, the image was taken during a pass over central Italy, spanning from Fano on the Adriatic Sea ac...
Clouds changing as world warms, adding to climate uncertainty
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
Some clouds are rising higher into the atmosphere, where they trap more heat. Others are reflecting less sunlight, or shrinking and allowing more solar energy t...
Clouds and conspiracies: concerns over push to make rain
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
As climate change drives floods and drought, rainmaking is in fashion across the world, despite mixed evidence that it works and concerns it can stoke cross-bor...
Biomass satellite to lift off aboard Vega C in late April
Mar 26, 2025 (SPX)
The European Space Agency's Earth Explorer program is renowned for producing world-class scientific data on Earth's dynamic systems. Forests, which absorb about...
Planet collaborates with ESA to advance Greek satellite services
Mar 25, 2025 (SPX)
The arrangement allows Greece to employ PlanetScope data to aid the creation of downstream services for its national satellite program. This data will support t...
Advancing satellite methods for mapping coastal seabeds
Mar 20, 2025 (SPX)
"High-precision traditional technologies such as topographic profiling, boat-based echo sounders and sonar are currently the best available methods for providin...
Spire debuts AI weather forecasting models built with NVIDIA Omniverse Earth2 tech
Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)
AI-WX delivers weather forecasts up to 20 days out, while AI-S2S extends forecasting capabilities to 45 days. These models are underpinned by Spire's proprietar...
Pixxel satellites deliver groundbreaking hyperspectral imaging milestone
Mar 19, 2025 (SPX)
Following a flawless commissioning process, all three satellites are now fully operational. This accomplishment is a key milestone for Pixxel as it moves closer...
Sidus Space launches third LizzieSat satellite with enhanced onboard AI
Mar 18, 2025 (SPX)
"We've successfully launched three hybrid, additively manufactured satellites equipped with advanced AI edge-computing capabilities in just 12 months, solidifyi...
NASA's EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Electrojets
Mar 17, 2025 (SPX)
Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission's trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration appro...
ICEYE expands satellite fleet with latest launch and unveils advanced Gen4 imaging system
Mar 17, 2025 (SPX)
The satellites were successfully launched on March 15, 2025, aboard SpaceX's Transporter-13 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, USA....
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