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July 21, 2025

By NASA’s Earth Observatory By measuring the gravitational pull of water for more than two decades, NASA satellites have peered...

NASA: By air and by sea: Validating NASA’s PACE ocean color instrument

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Ecosystems

June 30, 2025

By Milan Loiacono, NASA In autumn 2024, California’s Monterey Bay experienced an outsized phytoplankton bloom that attracted fish, dolphins, whales, seabirds,...

NASA Sensor on Space Station Eyes Contamination off California Coast

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Science Water quality

June 19, 2025

Proof-of-concept results from the mouth of the Tijuana River in San Diego County show how an instrument called EMIT could...

NASA tracks snowmelt to improve water management

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Hydrology

April 25, 2025

By Erica Heim, NASA As part of a science mission tracking one of Earth’s most precious resources – water – NASA’s...

NASA takes to the air to study wildflowers

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Hydrology

March 26, 2025

For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms to understand our ever-changing planet....

NASA Uses Advanced Radar to Track Groundwater in California

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Groundwater News

March 20, 2025

By Emily DeMarco, NASA Where California’s towering Sierra Nevada surrender to the sprawling San Joaquin Valley, a high-stakes detective story...

NASA: FARMing with data: OpenET launches new tool for farmers and ranchers

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Agriculture

March 5, 2025

By Milan Loiacono, Science Communication Specialist A NASA and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)-supported research and development team is making it...

NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY: Where California’s land is sinking and rising

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Groundwater News

February 25, 2025

By NASA’s Earth Observatory As part of a broader effort to improve understanding of sea level rise, researchers have published...

NASA-led study pinpoints areas sinking, rising along California coast

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Climate change Science

February 11, 2025

The elevation changes may seem small — amounting to fractions of inches per year — but they can increase or...

NASA scientists find new human-caused shifts in global water cycle

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Climate change Hydrology Science

January 21, 2025

By Erica McNamee, NASA In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that...

NASA study: Crops, forests responding to changing rainfall patterns

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Hydrology

January 3, 2025

By Sally Younger, NASA’s Earth Science News Team A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year...

JPL: NASA-DOD Study finds saltwater to widely taint coastal groundwater by 2100

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Groundwater News

December 12, 2024

By NASA/JPL: Intrusion of saltwater into coastal groundwater can make water there unusable, damage ecosystems, and corrode infrastructure. Seawater will...