NASA is hosting a media teleconference where scientists will discuss recent changes in Arctic sea ice and links to climate changes. The teleconference is Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 1 p.m. EDT.
According to a new NASA study, dust from deserts collects in the atmosphere against the slopes of South Asia's Tibetan Plateau during the region's monsoon season and helps trigger rainfall.
Ioke started as a tropical depression on August 19, 2006, and quickly became a tropical storm. Ioke was the first tropical storm to form in the central Pacific since 2002. It has since traveled more than halfway across the entire