What On Earth

January 2010
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Let There be Light Mar 15, 2010 08:44:24 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
An early morning sun illuminated the light rain over Nevada, Missouri, on May 14, 2009, spraying rays across the sky. Photographer Tommy Hornbeck captured what some viewers may believe to be virga, rain that evaporates before it reaches the surface.
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School kids verify NASA satellite observations Mar 15, 2010 08:35:17 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
Students at a Pennsylvania school recorded their 5,000th observation of clouds in support of NASA climate science
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Can Something Out in Space be Good for Your Health on Earth? Mar 15, 2010 08:20:20 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
Stanley Morain's career has led him to a spot as director of the Earth Data Analysis Center at the University of New Mexico, where he has encouraged his colleagues and students to follow their hearts in the projects they pursue. He’s set the example by spending 10 years using NASA satellite data to create daily dust forecasts to improve health alerts.
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The Mysteries of Muck (and the Collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet) Feb 26, 2010 08:50:23 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
I spent big chunks of my childhood mucking through the lakes and bogs of New England with my brothers and looking for any number of critters hidden in the silt.
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Sea level isn't really level at all Mar 15, 2010 08:42:57 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
Even though it’s sometimes convenient to think of the ocean as a great big bathtub, where turning on the tap at one end raises the water level in the whole tub, real sea level rise doesn’t quite happen that way.
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Deforestation: Much Ado about the Contribution to Global CO2 Feb 17, 2010 08:48:40 AM | NASA Earth Science News Team
 
Deforestation. The environmental implications of the word are as numerous as the syllables. And scientists like Jim Collatz have the job of trying to ferret out and prove those implications. Or, as the case may be, of correcting what scientists have believed to be true.
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