NASA scientists are combining data from water samples containing fish DNA with satellite data to find native fish and identify their habitats.

The August Complex Fire and others this fire season have been sending far-reaching plumes of wildfire smoke into the atmosphere that worsen air quality in California and beyond. Predicting where that smoke will travel and how bad the air will be downwind is a challenge, but Earth-observing satellites can help.

The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just added to the year's woes.