Skip to main content

ORNL DAAC News

Read the latest news stories, feature articles, user stories, and blog posts that feature data archived by NASA's Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC).
View all News and Announcements

For real-time announcements about data outages, releases, and retirements, see our list of Data Alerts and Outages.

Filters
Photograph of a lush, green rainforest in the Pacific Northwest

NASA Ecological Data Made Easy

NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) has developed resources and tools to help researchers easily find, analyze, and visualize ecological data.
Feature Article
Nov. 4, 2020
Clumps of deciduous trees often grow in larger coniferous forests, such as this group of Aspen trees in Rocky Mountain National Park. (Image courtesy of the USGS).

Well Grounded

Characterizing MODIS performance involves an innovative and international collaboration of scientists.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Logging for the purpose of clearing land for agriculture continues to threaten the Brazilian rainforest. (Image courtesy of the United Nations Environment Programme, USGS, and NASA).

The Road to Recovery

According to a recent report in Science, the Amazon rain forest has lost nearly two million acres to logging each year since 1996.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The image above shows measurements of the boreal forest taken through a flux tower.

The Dirt on Carbon

The quiet forests of Canada may slowly be losing carbon, not from the trees themselves, but from the frozen soils underneath, where deep pools of carbon are locked within permafrost.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The image above shows a snow covered forest

Snow Sleuths

Climate modelers trying to replicate climate change on a global scale need to better understand smaller scale regional climate dynamics to account for the nuances of climate variability.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
The image above shows the northern lights (Aurora Borealis) as seen during long winter nights of the high latitude boreal forests.

Silvus Borealis

The relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and beavers may not be readily apparent to the average person.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
SHOWING 8 OF 130