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Larger Wheat Harvest in Ukraine Than Expected
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Published December 2, 2022
A satellite-based analysis indicates that nearly 27 million tons of wheat were harvested from the country’s farms this year, but Ukraine won’t reap all of the benefits.
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Measuring War’s Effect on a Global Breadbasket
Published June 29, 2022
NASA Harvest researchers are using satellite observations and economic data to track how the Russia-Ukraine conflict is disrupting the global food system.
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Tracking Night Lights in Ukraine
The data are useful for researchers and relief agencies because they provide estimates of where and how many people have lost access to basic services.
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Scientific Questions Arrive in Ports
Published October 27, 2021
Satellite observations of nitrogen dioxide near key U.S. ports suggest that increased shipping activity and backlogs may be affecting air quality.
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Satellites View California Oil Spill
Published October 8, 2021
Satellite imagers can make oil spills easier to detect in open water.
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Smoky Skies in the Western Amazon
Published September 1, 2021
Increasing numbers of deforestation fires are darkening skies in Rondônia and Amazonas.
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COVID-19 Lockdowns Cut Pollution, But Not All of It
Published June 25, 2021
Dust storms and other weather phenomena offset some reductions in PM2.5 aerosol pollution.
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Traffic Jam on the Suez Canal
Published March 31, 2021
Hundreds of ships have been left idling around the key shipping route. Nature played a role in solving the problem.
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Fires Raged in the Amazon Again in 2020
Published February 19, 2021
Large numbers of deforestation-related fires burned in the Amazon rainforest, while uncontrolled wildfires blazed in savanna and grassland ecosystems in central Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ocean Altimetry
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Published November 5, 2020
The ocean is lumpy and sloshes around its basins for natural reasons. But it is also rising, slowly and steadily.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Land Motion
Earth’s surface may seem motionless most of the time, but an array of measurements show that natural and human-caused processes cause coastal land to rise and fall.
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Taking a Measure of Sea Level Rise: Ice Height
Scientists project ice losses from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets will play a large part in sea level rise in the upcoming century.
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