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Nasa (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
These true-color images show a wadi in northern Niger on September 19, 2007, and September 18, 2009. The 2007 shows the wadi populated by plants that have taken advantage of recent precipitation.
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tangledwing (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Wheeler Crest Eastern Sierra wallpaper Nitrogen loss threatens desert plant life, study shows Sparks (associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology) and lead author Carmody McCalley, a graduate student, warn that temperature increases and shifting precipitation patterns due to climate change may lead to further nitrogen losses in arid ecosystems. That would make arid soils even more [...]...
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EarthPortal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Known worldwide by its panda logo, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats. Now in its fifth decade, WWF works in more than 100 countries around the globe to conserve the diversity of life on Earth. Everglades Province (Bailey) Everglades National Park, United States Wetland Marsh Swamp Mangrove swamp Everglades restoration plan shrinks...
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits. (University of Washington press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. (Ohio State University press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to new research. (University at Buffalo press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A research team has corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event. (University of California – Riverside press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. (Ohio State University press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from US waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study. (NOAA press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain. (Ohio State University Institute press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling, and based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A study concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures. (Purdue University press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new study examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. (Lehigh University press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Satellite images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity in Kenya's section of the African Rift show deformation of four active volcanoes, which underscores the possibility for human hazard. (University of Miami press release)
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Nasa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The arc and waves of a pale brown plume of dust compliments the swirls of blue and green in the South Atlantic Ocean in this photo-like image from November 5, 2009.
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mamun2336 | 10/30/2009
Another typhoon in the northern Philippines really is something to be scared about, and Mirinae is expected to make landfall there in the mid-morning hours on Halloween, October 31. Mirinae will be the fourth major storm to hit the Philippines in one month bringing more rain to an already flood-weary region. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite is already hard at work analyzing...
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guruagent | 09/28/2009
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tamilselvan1 | 09/27/2009
At least 51 people have died and at least 21 others are missing after torrential rains and subsequent flooding pummeled the Philippines on Saturday, the government said.