Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (06 May 2008)

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (06 May 2008)
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In the News:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/

* Latest Images:
Chile's Chaiten Volcano Erupts
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18020

Cyclone Nargis Floods Myanmar (Burma)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18019

Volcanic Rocks, Southwestern Colorado
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18018

Monsoon Spurs Indian Green-up
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18017

Burren Plateau, County Clare, Ireland
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18016

Cyclone Nargis
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18015

Los Angeles at Night
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18014

Sulfur Dioxide and Vog from Kilauea
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18013

* NASA News
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/
- 'Broken Heart' Image the Last for NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission

* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/
- Is There a Hidden Order to the Northern Lights?
- Nature's Carbon Balance Confirmed
- Potent Greenhouse-Gas Methane has Been Rising
- North Pole Could Be Ice Free in 2008
- Arctic Getting "Wetter" Due to Human-Driven Warming
- Narwhals More at Risk from Arctic Warming than Polar Bears
- In British Columbia, a Beetle Upsets Climate Calculus
- Arctic Currents May be Warming the World
- Jet Stream Shifts May Spur More Powerful Hurricanes
- Shaky U.S. Grounds Revealed in New Maps
- Giant Undersea Volcano Found Off Iceland
- First Contact with Earthquake Zone
- Mysterious Striped Currents Revealed in the Oceans
- Ocean Waves Pounding Harder
- Hothouse Earth Would Halt Plate Tectonics
- More Doubt on Cosmic Climate Link
- Record Heat for Land Surfaces in March
- Singing Icebergs Get Record Deal
- Acidic Oceans May be Water of Life for Plankton

* New Research Highlights
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Research/

Got this via email.. enjoy reading and looking at the pictures... :)

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