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Your source for monitoring regional and global changes on our planet through images and stories.
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Snow in Syria
Snow covered much of Syria on the first day of 2009.
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Floods in Northern Australia
Drenching wet-season rains led to extensive flooding in Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia in early January 2009.
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Floods in Sumatra, Indonesia
Crops, roads, and homes were all swamped when rivers burst their banks in southern Sumatra in late December 2008
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Coal Ash Spill, Tennessee
In the early morning hours of December 22, 2008, the earthen wall of a containment pond at Tennessee?s Kingston Fossil Plant gave way. The breach released 1.3 million cubic meters (1.7 cubic yards) of sludge, infiltrating a nearby river and damaging dozens of homes.
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Plume from Soufriere Hills Volcano
Activity continued on the Soufriere Hills Volcano through the end of 2008, including pyroclastic flows and ash plumes.
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Modeling Radiation Exposure for Pilots, Crew and Passengers on Commercial Flights
Did you know that flight crews on high-latitude routes are exposed to more radiation on an annual basis than nuclear plant workers?
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Separating the Man-Made from the Natural
Analyzing anthropogenic signals in the climate records requires the ability to distinguish them from natural effects with similar time scales.
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Looking Both Ways at Pollution
Regulation of pollutants often treats their air quality and climate change effects separately, but a unified approach may produce better results.
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Cooler, but Still Warm
Although global temperatures were cooled by La Niņa early in the year, the 2008 meteorological year was among the ten warmest since reliable recordkeeping began.
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NASA-Funded Study Reveals Hazards of Severe Space Weather
A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.
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NASA Science on Display at American Geophysical Union Meeting
A NASA-funded study describes how extreme solar eruptions could have severe consequences for communications, power grids and other technology on Earth.
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SABER Reveals the Upper Atmosphere's "Breathing" Pattern, In Rhythm with the Sun
A NASA satellite has observed for the first time a "breathing" of the Earth's upper atmosphere in response to periodic, high-speed solar winds.
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Space Has Never Been Closer: NASA Instruments Document Contraction of the Boundary between...
Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes.
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2008 Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainfall
Hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression rainfall caused many severe floods and numerous lost lives during the 2008 north Atlantic hurricane season.
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New Satellite Data Reveal Impact of Olympic Pollution Controls
China had clearer skies and easier breathing in mind in the summer of 2008 when they temporarily shuttered some factories and banished many cars in a pre-Olympic sprint to clean up Beijing's air.
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Mission Operations Readiness Review for NPOESS Preparatory Project Completed
A comprehensive Mission Operations Readiness (MOR) review of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) was successfully completed last month.
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Sun Often "Tears Out a Wall" In Earth's Solar Storm Shield
Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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Explore the Entire Region of the Sun's Influence with NASA's 'Heliophysics Virtual Observatories'
Inspired by a desire to make finding space physics information as easy as book lovers locate a text on Amazon.com, the heliophysics virtual observatories offer a wealth of resources to learn more about the sun, Earth and heliosphere.
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New Oceanography Mission Data Now Available
Oceanography data that will help scientists around the world better understand climate change are now available.
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NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming
The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a recent study.
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