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Satellite confirms decline in pollution from coal power plants

12.07.11Adam Voiland and Rani Gran,NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterA team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the...

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NASA finds 2011 ninth-warmest year on record

While average global temperature will still fluctuate from year to year, scientists focus on the decadal trend. Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have occurred since the year 2000, as the Earth...

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NASA finds Russian runoff freshening Canadian Arctic

Increasing freshwater on the U.S. and Canadian side of the Arctic from 2005 to 2008 is balanced by decreasing freshwater on the Russian side, so that on average the Arctic did not have more freshwater....

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NASA study: Earth's energy budget 'out of balance'

         A graph of the sun's total solar irradiance shows that in recent years irradiance dipped to the lowest levels recorded during the satellite era. The resulting reduction in the amount of solar...

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NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'

Clouds play a vital role in Earth's energy balance, cooling or warming Earth's surface depending on their type. This painting, "Cumulus Congestus," by JPL's Graeme Stephens, principal investigator of...

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NASA finds 2011 ninth-warmest year on record

While average global temperature will still fluctuate from year to year, scientists focus on the decadal trend. Nine of the 10 warmest years since 1880 have occurred since the year 2000, as the Earth...

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NASA Spacecraft Returns First Video from Far Side Of The Moon

WASHINGTON -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon...

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Watching the planet breathe

Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth’s plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters [1], researchers working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion...

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Earth's clouds are getting lower

02.22.12By Alan Buis,NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryEarth's clouds got a little lower — about one percent on average — during the first decade of this century, finds a new study based on NASA satellite...

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Trekking the global in search of answers

02.15.12By Alan Buis,NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryWhile NASA's fleet of Earth science spacecraft — its "eyes on the Earth"— continues to monitor the pulse of our home planet, 2012 is also shaping up...

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NASA map sees Earth's trees in a new light

02.21.12By Alan Buis,Jet Propulsion LaboratoryA NASA-led science team has created an accurate, high-resolution map of the height of Earth's forests. The map will help scientists better understand the...

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Infrared eye opens

02.09.12By Cynthia O'Carroll, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,John Leslie, National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationA powerful new infrared instrument, flying on NASA's newest polar-orbiting...

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Detecting detrimental change in coral reefs

02.09.12By Laura Rocchio,NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterOver dinner on R.V. Calypso while anchored on the lee side of Glover’s Reef in Belize, Jacques Cousteau told Phil Dustan that he suspected...

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'First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument

The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure...

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NASA mission takes stock of Earth's melting land ice

02.08.12By Alan Buis,Jet Propulsion LaboratorySteve Cole,NASA HeadquartersIn the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to...

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NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'

01.31.12By Alan Buis,Jet Propulsion LaboratoryTwo years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., released a study claiming that inconsistencies between...

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NASA study: Earth's energy budget 'out of balance'

02.01.12By Adam Voiland,NASA's Earth Science News TeamA new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity—not changes in solar activity—are the primary force driving...

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Muddled outlook

The 2012 hurricane season in North and Central America arrives with a muddled outlook. Sea surface temperatures are not particularly warm or cool, and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is...

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Mild fire forecast

Forests in the Amazon Basin are expected to be less vulnerable to wildfires this year, according to the first forecast from a new fire severity model developed by university and NASA researchers.Fire...

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NASA's new carbon-counting instrument leaves the nest

Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft — NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon...

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Storm sentinels

Beginning this summer and over the next several years, NASA will be sending unmanned aircraft dubbed "severe storm sentinels" above stormy skies to help researchers and forecasters uncover information...

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China Olympics Traffic Measures Cut Carbon Emissions

A new NASA-funded study of the impacts of China's traffic restrictions for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing shows how widespread changes in transportation patterns could greatly reduce the threat of...

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HOT OR COLD - GLOBAL WARMING

While there is still some disagreement about global warming, many scientists believe it is the result of changes in the earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere creates a blanket that surrounds the earth....

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Earth’s average surface temperature

Global Warming is the rise of Earth’s average surface temperature due to result of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels or from deforestation, which trap heat...

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Climate Change Impacts

As environmental change influences transportation, it will be paramount to see how transportation base may be affected over the short- and long haul. This segment gives assets on the conceivable...

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