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NASA: Large heat reservoir developing under the Pacific Ocean, strengthening El Niño

NASA: Large heat reservoir developing under the Pacific Ocean, strengthening El Niño

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Measurements from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite reveal rising sea levels, indicating that warm water is accumulating beneath the surface. According to NOAA's latest forecast, there is an 81% probability that
An Israeli nonprofit called Deep Voice helps researchers and conservation organizations around the world protect marine mammals. Photo: Aviel Shaul

With the help of voice: artificial intelligence for whales

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Israeli NGO Deep Voice develops acoustic models to identify marine mammal sounds; WILDLABS grant will enable online platform for conservation and restoration of at-risk populations
On Trump, science, and climate change denial. Image prepared using ideogram.ai

Trump Administration Attacks on Climate Scientists (2025)

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Budget cuts, censorship and layoffs – the Trump administration's steps against climate research, investigation.
Science made America great. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via IDEOGRAM.AI

Scientists are rising up to oppose Trump policies. Today a wave of protests

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March 7 protests across the US and Europe will protest cuts to research, staffing and funding, and push for continued federal focus on diversity, equity and inclusion
The destruction of medical and scientific research in the Trump-Musk administration. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DAKEE

Musk's cuts threaten US science, education, and healthcare infrastructure and will harm generations

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Cuts in direct and indirect research budgets at NIH, NOAA, FEMA, and many other agencies will lead to a decline in research infrastructure, stunted scientific innovation, and loss of talent, which could critically impact the development of treatments and public health.
Temperature and wind are considered weather conditions that affect the risk of fires starting, the speed of their spread, and their size in the short term. Photo: pixabay

California is Burning: 3 Fire Damages You Didn't Think About

The fire has been raging in Los Angeles for weeks and is a painful example of the consequences of the climate crisis. The damage will be paid not only by residents, but also by the air, soil and ecosystems in the area.
As the sun weakens, cosmic radiation at flight altitude strengthens

NASA and NOAA: The sun has reached the peak of the solar cycle and will continue to operate strongly for the next two years

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NASA and NOAA forecasts indicate an increase in solar activity, increasing the risk of space weather and affecting satellites, communications and the aurora borealis
Sunspot up close. Photo: NASA

NOAA satellites detected a strong solar storm

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In late March 2024, NOAA satellites detected strong solar activity, including a powerful solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME), which led to the strongest geomagnetic storm since 2017
This map depicts the global temperature anomalies for the meteorological summer in 2023 (June, July and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of the Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin

Climate crisis dealt a strong blow: Summer 2023 was the warmest ever

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This raw data is analyzed using methods that take into account the variable distance between temperature stations around the world and the effects of urban heat islands that may distort the calculations.
A thermometer in the Netherlands shows a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, July 2019. Photo: shutterstock

July 2019 was the hottest month on record

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The average global warming map of 2013 – 2017, compared to the average temperature in the period from 1951 to 1980. Source: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

2017 was among the three hottest years since measurements began

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Alaska. heats up fast. Photo: Steve Halama.

where is the ice Alaska is warming up

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Independent analyzes done by NASA and by the National Atmospheric and Oceanographic Agency (NOAA) show that this was the warmest year since land surface temperature measurements began in 1880. Photo: NASA

NASA and NOAA data reveal that 2015 was the hottest year in history

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The far side of the Moon overlaps the Earth. The image shows the far side of the Moon, illuminated by the Sun, as it crosses between the DSCOVR spacecraft and Earth and between both and the Sun. Photo: NASA/NOAA

NASA photographed the far side of the moon completely illuminated and hiding Earth

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Heat measurements in June 2014 compared to the average for the corresponding month during the 20th century. Figure: NOAA

A new record in global heat measurements was recorded in June, breaking the record of May 2014

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El Niño conditions in the Pacific Ocean. From a NASA video

El Nino - will 2014 be the new 1997?

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Frozen Niagara Falls, February 2014. Photo: From the Facebook page of Prof. Yitzhak Ben-Israel

The weather in the USA is going crazy: the east is freezing and the west is suffering from a drought

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The Storflaket area in Sweden, a place where the frost is melting. Photo: from Wikipedia

The year 2012 was one of the ten hottest years in history

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A NOAA expedition examines the melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2005. Photo: NOAA

The Arctic Ocean will be free of summer ice during the first half of the 21st century

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The NOAA-9 satellite. Figure: NOAA

The excuses are over - calibration errors were found in the model that showed less global warming than in reality

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The simulation of currents in the oceans by NOAA. Figure courtesy of SGI

NOAA has installed an SGI storage system that will allow it to study ocean currents

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The blue marble - this time the eastern hemisphere. Taken in January 2012 from the Sumi-NPP spacecraft. Photo: NASA and NOAA

The Blue Marble - 2012 version

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Solar flare on 23/1/2010 in the morning (Israel time) on the upper right side. Photo: NASA

A strong solar storm reached Earth, but caused no damage

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Cumulus clouds. Photo: NOAA

Clouds of sheep

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State of the Atmosphere and Climate Report 2010. From the NOAA website

2010 - one of the two hottest years in history

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The last image of the Sun before stereo spacecraft aligned themselves in opposite directions and were able to see the entire Sun from a completely different angle than seen on Earth. The gap is seen as a line cutting through the Sun in this image from February 2, 2011. The gap closed on February 6

The sun - from today in XNUMXD photography courtesy of Stereo spacecraft

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Hot springs of melted ice as photographed by an Internet camera in the North Pole. Photo: NOAA

NOAA report: The Arctic region is warming rapidly

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The effect of solar storms on Earth. Image: NASA

NOAA has assumed responsibility for solar storm warnings

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As the sun weakens, cosmic radiation at flight altitude strengthens

Virgin Galactic signed an agreement with NOAA

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As the sun weakens, cosmic radiation at flight altitude strengthens

Competition between bad and bad

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