NASA Earth on Instagram: "For over 50 years, @nasa/@usgs Landsat satellites have monitored Earth’s coastlines. While coastal ecosystems cover only a small portion of our planet, they play an important role: storing carbon, buffering storms, and sheltering wildlife. This data helps us understand how coastal ecosystems are changing. For example, Landsat data has shown how hurricanes impact mangroves, expanding meadows of eelgrass, changes in water quality, and more. #Earth #NASA #Coast #Beach #Sci

Historical Records on Instagram: "Capturing smoke from burning plastic in a bag shows how much pollution just one small fire can create. This simple test helps people understand the harmful effects of burning waste, especially plastic, which is still common in many places. Burning plastic releases toxic gases like dioxins, furans, and heavy metals. These harmful fumes can affect human health, causing breathing problems and other illnesses. They also hurt the environment. This method of throwing

Understanding Erin Brockovich's Impact on Environmental Law

Impact on Instagram: "Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall. 🩵 Impact’s interview with the heroic conservationist and climate activist from April captured Dr. Goodall’s reflection on the state of today’s climate crisis and her hope in the young people who are fighting to protect the natural world."

NASA Earth on Instagram: "Aerosols are tiny solid or liquid particles in our atmosphere like dust, sulfates from pollution or volcanoes, wildfire smoke, and more. NASA’s GEOS model shows how these particles can affect the air we breathe—even from far away. In this visualization of aerosol data from the GEOS model, different colors represent different aerosols. Sea salt is blue, dust is pink, smoke is orange, and sulfates from pollution and volcanoes are green. Data is shown for Aug. 1 to Sept. 1