Earth Sciences

Earth Sciences

Researchers Find Substantial Water Pollution Risks From “Fracking” to Recover Natural Gas

In a paper titled “Water Pollution Risk Associated with Natural Gas Extraction from the Marcellus Shale,” which appears in the August 2012 issue of the journal…

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NASA satellites revealed Tropical Storm Ernesto's strongest side

A visible image of Tropical Storm Ernesto approaching Central America was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that…

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Tropical Storm Haikui Approaching China

When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Haikui on August 6, 2012 at 12:35 a.m. EDT the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument…

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NASA Infrared Imagery Reveals Weaker Tropical Storm 13W

Infrared satellite imagery from shows how cold cloud top temperatures are in a tropical cyclone, and recent imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite shows the…

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Diseased Trees Found to Emit High Levels of Methane

Sixty trees sampled at Yale Myers Forest in northeastern Connecticut contained concentrations of methane that were as high as 80,000 times ambient levels….

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NASA’s Aqua Satellite Tracks Typhoon Haikui Approaching China

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Haikui on August 5. The AIRS instrument captured an infrared image of the cloud temperatures that showed the…

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NASA Monitors Development of Tropical Storm Florence

On Friday, August 3, the low pressure area known as “System 90L” was being watched for development. It was located south of the Cape Verde Islands off the…

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NASA's Aqua satellite shows strongest side of Tropical Storm 13W

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm 13W on August 6 at 0205 UTC (Aug. 5 10:05 a.m. EDT). The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument…

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NASA Monitors Strengthening Tropical Storm Ernesto

NASA infrared data revealed strong thunderstorms on August 5 that indicated a strengthening storm, and the GOES-13 satellite showed a well-organized tropical…

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Robotic Geologist to Analyze Mars’ Rocks Using Mineral Database

It will explore the composition of rocks with the help of the world's largest reference database of minerals, housed at the University of Arizona in Tucson.On…

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Mapping Africa’s Climate Future: Innovations in Regional Models

Our planet's changing climate is devastating communities in Africa through droughts, floods and myriad other disasters.Using detailed regional climate models…

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Cut Emissions Now to Avoid Future Air Pollution Risks

In this ‘business-as-usual’ scenario, the average world citizen 40 years from now will experience similar air pollution to that of today’s average East Asian…

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Urban Air Pollution Surges Amid Summer Heat Waves

Hot summer days cause in large cities very seldom great happiness among inhabitants. On those days the air is highly polluted with automobile and industrial…

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Tropical climate in the Antarctic: Palm trees thrived on today’s icy coasts 52 million years ago

Knowledge of past episodes of global warmth can be used to better understand the relationship between climate change, variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide…

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Twin Typhoons Saola and Damrey Target China Landfall

Typhoon Saola is approaching Taiwan and Typhoon Damrey approaching southern Japan, are both headed for landfall in China. Saola is forecast to landfall south…

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NASA Satellite Tracks Developing Atlantic Tropical Low System

The low pressure area, designated as “System 99L” was located about 850 miles east of the southern Windward Islands, near 10.7 North latitude and 46.9 West…

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