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Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Published by National Aeronautics and Space Administration | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: February 21, 2026 | Last Modified: 2025-04-23
Research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal and annual effects such as El Nino, and on up to the millennia of ice ages and that affect the habitability of our planet.

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