From today (Monday 9 June), industrial action by members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) will disrupt CrossCountry services, causing short-notice cancellations.
Central Brazil Cerrado
On May 19, 2025, Landsat 9 captured this image of the Serra de Caldas in the state of Goiás, Brazil. The oval plateau is covered by a biologically rich savanna and grassland ecosystem called Cerrado. The Cerrado covers about one-fifth of Brazil’s land area and represents the second-largest biome in South America behind the Amazon. These lands […]
NASA’s TROPICS Mission: Offering Detailed Images and Analysis of Tropical Cyclones
Introduction Tropical cyclones represent a danger to life, property, and the economies of communities. Researchers who study tropical cyclones have focused on remote observations using space-based platforms to image these storms, inform forecasts, better predict landfall, and improve understanding of storm dynamics and precipitation evolution – see Figure 1. The tropical cyclone community has leveraged […]