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February 13, 2013
Study sheds new light on Arctic sea ice volume losses
New research using combined records of ice measurements from NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 satellite, airborne surveys and ocean-based sensors shows Arctic sea ice volume declined 36 percent in the autumn and nine percent in the winter over the last decade.
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February 12, 2013
NASA satellites find freshwater losses in Middle East
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.
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February 12, 2013
Geologic delight
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February 11, 2013
A satellite’s view of ship pollution
For more than a decade, scientists have observed “ship tracks” in natural-color satellite imagery of the ocean.
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February 11, 2013
Landsat set to launch today
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft sits atop a two-stage Atlas V rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, scheduled for launch at 1:02 p.m. EST at the beginning of a 48-minute launch window.
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February 6, 2013
Pacific locked in 'La Nada' limbo
Sea-surface height data from NASA's Jason-1 satellite show that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is still locked in what some call a neutral, or 'La Nada' state. This condition follows two years of strong, cool-water La Niña events.
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February 6, 2013
Consensus: 97% of climate scientists agree
Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities,1and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position.
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February 4, 2013
Image of the Day: Flooding in Mozambique
In January 2013, torrential rains pushed the Limpopo River over its banks in southern Mozambique, inundating homes and agricultural fields. As of January 29, 2013, the Associated Press reported, 38 people had been killed and 150,000 had been displaced.
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January 31, 2013
Fertilizing phytoplankton with volcanic ash
Several researchers have proposed that we could “engineer” our environment to offset the rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
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January 31, 2013
Satellite image shows eastern U.S. severe weather system
A powerful cold front moving from the central United States to the East Coast is wiping out spring-like temperatures and replacing them with winter-time temperatures with powerful storms in between.
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January 30, 2013
For kids: Make seed paper
When is a recycled product better than the original? When it's paper that turns into flowers.
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January 29, 2013
NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to Space Station
In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction.
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January 29, 2013
Air quality suffering in China
Residents of Beijing and many other cities in China were warned to stay inside mid-January 2013 as the nation faced one of the worst periods of air quality in recent history.
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January 23, 2013
Plant a butterfly garden
Make a garden of your local butterflies’ favorite foods and you will have a beautiful garden of flowers and butterflies.
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January 22, 2013
Solar variability and terrestrial climate
In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star. While some stars exhibit dramatic pulsations, wildly yo-yoing in size and brightness, and sometimes even exploding, the luminosity of our own sun varies a measly 0.1% over the course of the 11-year solar cycle.
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January 17, 2013
Study finds severe climate jeopardizing Amazon forest
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led study.
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January 16, 2013
NASA ozone study may benefit air standards, climate
A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters.
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January 15, 2013
NASA finds 2012 sustained long-term climate warming trend
NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.
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January 14, 2013
Landsat senses a disturbance in the forest
A new way of studying and visualizing Earth science data from a NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite program is resulting in, for the first time, the ability to tease out the small events that can cause big changes in an ecosystem.
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January 14, 2013
NASA chases climate change clues into the stratosphere
Starting this month, NASA will send a remotely piloted research aircraft as high as 65,000 feet over the tropical Pacific Ocean to probe unexplored regions of the upper atmosphere for answers to how a warming climate is changing Earth.
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January 14, 2013
Improving climate change predictions, one cloud at a time
Clouds are currently the greatest source of uncertainty in climate change predictions — but not for long. By modeling the complexity of clouds at small scales, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working to improve climate prediction models in a big way.
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January 10, 2013
ClimatePalooza 2013
ClimatePalooza is a collaborative effort by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to put a different focus on climate change.
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January 9, 2013
The Maldives
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January 8, 2013
2012 warmest on record for contiguous U.S.
2012 was a historic year for extreme weather that included drought, wildfires, hurricanes and storms; however, tornado activity was below average.
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January 4, 2013
Snow jam in the Rockies
In time for the 2012 winter solstice, a storm dropped snow over most of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on December 19.
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