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Tropical Storm Trami and Monsoon Rains Causing Flooding in the Philippines

Tropical Storm Trami enhanced rainfall from the monsoon, and caused flooding in the northern Philippines, including Manila, the capital city. The northern…

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NASA Sees Another New Central Pacific Tropical Cyclone

NOAA's GOES-West satellite imagery from Aug. 20 at 1200 UTC/8 a.m. EDT showed a rounded tropical depression about 1,310 miles/2,105 km west of Lihue, Hawaii. The GOES image was created by the NASA GOES Project at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The GOES image shows the strongest thunderstorms around the depression's center….

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NASA Sees Tropical Storm Pewa Temporarily Weaken

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Tropical Storm Pewa on Aug. 20 at 01:47 UTC/9:47…

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NASA Scientists Relate Urban Population to Air Pollution

Using satellite observations, NASA scientists directly measured air pollution's dependence on population in four of the planet's major air pollution regions:…

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Magma Pools: Insights from Yellowstone’s Volcanic Past

That means an area known to have experienced a massive volcanic eruption in the past, such as Yellowstone National Park, could have a large pool of magma…

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Australia’s 2010-2011 Rainfall: A Brief Sea Level Pause

New research shows that in 2010 and 2011, enough water collected in Australia to temporarily halt a long-term trend of global sea level rise. When three…

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New Discovery: Massive Iron Plume in South Atlantic Ocean

Scientists have discovered a vast plume of iron and other micronutrients more than 1,000 km long billowing from hydrothermal vents in the South Atlantic Ocean….

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NASA Sees Tropical Storm Unala Develop and Weaken Quickly

Aqua captured an image of Tropical Storm Unala in the central Pacific Ocean where it formed early today, Aug. 19. Over several hours, Unala moved into the…

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NASA Catches Short-lived Northwestern Pacific Ocean Tropical Depression 13W

TD13W was “born” at 1500 UTC/11 a.m. EDT on Aug. 17 with maximum sustained winds near 25 knots. Later that day at 2100 UTC/5 p.m. EDT, the Joint Typhoon…

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NASA Sees Tropical Storm Trami U-Turning

In a NASA image, Trami appears to be about two-thirds the size of the Philippines. Satellite data also indicates that the massive storm is now making a U-turn…

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NASA Satellite Sees Pewa Become a Typhoon

On Sunday, Aug. 18, Pewa was a tropical storm when it crossed the International Date Line and moved from the Central Pacific to the Northwestern Pacific Ocean….

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How shale fracking led to an Ohio town's first 100 earthquakes

In December 2010, Northstar 1, a well built to pump wastewater produced by fracking in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania, came online. In the year that…

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Erin Weakens to a Tropical Depression Over Eastern Atlantic

NOAA's GOES-East satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Depression Erin on Aug. 16 at 1445 UTC/10:45 a.m. EDT. The image was created by NASA's GOES…

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NASA Sees Tropical Storm Pewa Develop in Central Pacific

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Central Pacific on Aug. 16 at 00:35 UTC (8:35 p.m. EDT/Aug. 15), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer…

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How shale fracking led to an Ohio town's first 100 earthquakes

In December 2010, Northstar 1, a well built to pump wastewater produced by fracking in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania, came online. In the year that…

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Antarctic ice core sheds new light on how the last ice age ended

Analysis of an ice core taken by the National Science Foundation- (NSF) funded West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide drilling project reveals that warming in…

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