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Land Natural forces continually reshape the Earth's landscapes. Recently, Humans attained the magnitude of a geological force, transforming about 40 percent of our planet's land surface. How do our deforestation practices affect the cycles of water and carbon through the climate system? How are the world's forest, grassland, and desert ecosystems responding to the current global warming trend?
 

Reference
·William Smith (1769
·Tropical Deforestation
·Nicolaus Steno
·GRACE Fact Sheet
·ICESat Factsheet
·Overview of the Earth Science Enterprise
·Global Warming Fact Sheet
·GRACE Fact Sheet
·The Carbon Cycle
·Ultraviolet Radiation
·Biomass Burning
·Alfred Wegener
·Drought
·The Water Cycle
·Global Fire Monitoring
·Land Cover Classification
·Tropical Deforestation Fact Sheet
·Changing Global Land Surface
 
Features
·Devastating Drought Settles on the High Plains
·Siberia Blog 2008
·Cities at Night
·Amazon Fires on the Rise
·Ancient Forest to Modern City
·Coal Controversy In Appalachia
·Observing Volcanoes, Satellite Thinks for Itself
·Can Earth's Plants Keep up with Us?
·Satellite Monitors Rains that Trigger Landslides
·Something Under the Ice is Moving
·Fire Alarms from Orbit
·Remote River Reconnaissance
·Defining Desertification
·Urban Rain
·Rise and Fall
·Beating the Heat in the World's Big Cities
·Defying Dry
·Paleoclimatology
·Forest on the Threshold
·Lake Victoria's Falling Waters
·Aiding Afghanistan
·Paleoclimatology
·Mosaic of Antarctica
·Looking for Lawns
·The Art of Science
·Fire Emergency in Acre, Brazil
·Operation Antarctica
·Out of the Crevasse Field
·Time on the Shelf
·High Water
·Stealing Rain from the Rainforest
·Collapse of the Kolka Glacier
·Mayan Mysteries (DAAC Study)
·Sensing Remote Volcanoes (DAAC Study)
·Uncovering Chameleons
·Sizing Up the Earth's Glaciers (DAAC Study)
·Flood Disaster Hits Hispaniola
·From Forest to Field
·LIDAR
·Denali's Fault (DAAC Study)
·Watching the World Go By
·Just Add Water
·Land Matters (DAAC Study)
·The Great Bend of the Nile, Day and Night
·Squeezing Water from Rock (DAAC Study)
·Global Garden Gets Greener
·Escape from the Amazon
·How on Earth was this Image Made?
·From Space to the Outback
·Flame & Flood (DAAC Study)
·The Human Footprint (DAAC Study)
·The Road to Recovery (DAAC Study)
·Introduction to the LBA
·From Wetland to Wasteland
·Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation
·Prospecting from Orbit
·Locust!
·Rain Helps Carbon Sink
·The Migrating Boreal Forest
·Space
·Urbanization's Aftermath
·Fiery Temperament (DAAC Study)
·Seeing Leaves in a New Light
·Scientist for a Day (DAAC Study)
·Domes of Destruction (DAAC Study)
·Testing the Waters
·Hantavirus Risk Maps (DAAC Study)
·Tracking a Volcano
·Snow Sleuths (DAAC Study)
·When Land Slides (DAAC Study)
·New Light on Ice Motion (DAAC Study)
·A View From Above (DAAC Study)
·Well Grounded (DAAC Study)
·Measure for Measure (DAAC Study)
·Location, Location, Location (DAAC Study)
·Astronauts Photograph Mount Pinatubo
·Watching Plants Dance to the Rhythms of the Ocean
·When the Dust Settles (DAAC Study)
·From the Dust Bowl to the Sahel (DAAC Study)
·Precision Farming
·Frozen Soils and the Climate System (DAAC Study)
·Reaping What We Sow
·Bright Lights, Big City
·Hurricane Floyd
·The Dirt on Carbon (DAAC Study)
·Perspective on Plants (DAAC Study)
·Flying High for Fine Wine
·Human Impact on the Mojave (DAAC Study)
·RAMPing Up (DAAC Study)
·River Seasons (DAAC Study)
·Finding Fossils from Space
·Grasslands Initiative (DAAC Study)
·Fire and Ice (DAAC Study)
·Growing Data (DAAC Study)
·Hurricane Floyd
·On Thin Ice (DAAC Study)
·When Rivers of Rock Flow
·Hurricane Floyd's Lasting Legacy
·Putting Earthquakes in Their Place
·Global Temperature Trends
·Mapping Malaria
·Melt
·Introduction to BOREAS
·Silvus Borealis (DAAC Study)
·Evolving in the Presence of Fire
·A Burning Question (DAAC Study)
·Land Biosphere Modeling
·Floods
·Should We Talk About the Weather? Improving Global Forecasts with BOREAS Research
·90 Degrees N. 1999
·Mystery of the Missing Carbon
·At the Edge
·Fire! NASA Demonstrates New Technology for Monitoring Fires From Space
 
Experiments
·Global Dataset Comparison Activities
·Mission: Biomes
·Earthquake!
·MAS Compositer
 
  
Featured Land Images
More Land Images

Ningaloo National Marine Park, Western Australia
Ningaloo National Marine Park, Western Australia

Floods Cover Bihar, India
Floods Cover Bihar, India

Ice Shelves Retreat on Ellesmere Island
Ice Shelves Retreat on Ellesmere Island

   
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