A mysterious patch in the Pacific Ocean is defying all climate models - it is inexplicably cooling while the rest of the world is warming. Stretching off the west coast of Ecuador, this “cold tongue” challenges what we know about...

Slide into 'Polar Ice Caps' to explore the frosty worlds at the top and bottom of our planet! This video gives kids a chilly but thrilling look at the icy giants and their role on Earth.

This video is answering the question of how can the polar ice caps affect the climate's temperature.

With the scale of ecology now understood, we can start to look at one of the most important concepts in ecology, climate. What is climate? How does it differ from weather? How does climate change over time and why? Let's do a deep dive now!

Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School, New York at the panel entitled "Managing the Global Commons: Growth, Inequality, and New Thinking for Sustainable Economics" at the Institute...

Responding to the challenge of climate change requires understanding more about climate variability and the changes expected. Jim Kinter, director of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), explains how scientists there are...

People don't usually think of mathematics as an occupation that requires survival skills, but they might change their minds if they saw Kenneth Golden and his daring research team in action! The mathematician has spent the past 40 years...

How are climate models on climate change being improved?

Our planet is a beautiful and awesome place. In a new video, join NASA scientists on a 40-minute visual tour of Earth from space, presented at the IMAX Theater at National Air and Space Museum in...

What about indirect effects of greenhouse gasses? Do they increase warming or reduce it?

The topic of climate change inspires a lot of debate. At NASA, it has also inspired a lot of science.



NASA scientists examine the Earth's climate and how it is changing -- gaining knowledge through decades of...

NASA Kicks Off Antarctic Mission



This is the first year that IceBridge will operate directly from Antarctica, flying from McMurdo Station starting in mid-November instead of from southern Chile. This change will allow...

How has climate change research evolved over time?