The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (29 July 2008)

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (29 July 2008)
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In the News:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/

* Latest Images:
Floods in the Wake of Hurricane Dolly
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18104

First Global Water Vapor Map from OSTM
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18103

Sea Surface Temperature and Hurricane Bertha
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18102

Lagoons and Reefs of New Caledonia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18101

Sentinel Volcanic Field, Arizona
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18100

Hurricane Dolly
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18099

Sulfur Dioxide from Okmok Volcano
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18098

Beijing Implements New Pollution Controls
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=18097

* NASA News
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/
- New NASA 'Fire & Smoke' Web Page Shows Latest Fire Views, Research

* Media Alerts
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/
- Snapshot of Past Climate Reveals No Ice in Antarctica Millions of Years Ago
- Scientists Search for Answers from the Carbon in the Clouds
- Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic was Once Much Warmer
- Amazon Outflow is Found to Power Ocean Capture of Carbon Dioxide
- Typhoons Bury Tons of Carbon in the Oceans
- Chinese Earthquake Provides Lessons for Future
- Scientists Offer New Explanation for Monsoon Development
- Saharan Dust Storms Sustain Life in Atlantic Ocean
- Scientists Demonstrate the Sharpest Measurement of Ice Crystals in Clouds
- Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity
- Undersea Volcanoes Triggered Marine Extinction
- Future Snowmelt in West Twice as Early as Expected
- Scientists Close in on Source of X-rays in Lightning
- Scattered Nature of Wisconsin's Woodlands Could Complicate Forests' Response to Climate Change

* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/
- Climate Change Hurting Marine Snails
- Supercontinent Pangea Gets Climate Rethink
- Did Eroding Super Mountains Give Us the Air We Breathe?
- The Real Home of Hurricanes: Ethiopia?
- A Point of No Return for Greenland's Ice
- New Radar Detects Tornadoes Faster
- Weather Probes Swarm the Seas
- Satellite Designed to Spot Asteroid Armageddon
- Volcanoes May Not be Fed by Magma Mushrooms
- Shrimp-Like Fossil Confirms Antarctica was Once Warmer
- U.S. Spring Melt to Shift by Months
- Student to Track Tiger Sharks via Satellite
- Australian Tsunami Only a Matter of Time
- Wildfire Smoke May Cause Arctic Cooling
- More Icebergs Scouring Antarctic Seabed
- Middle Earth Mountains: Steep and Strong
- Sea Die-Out Blamed on Volcanoes
- U.S. Floods to Create Record Dead Zone
- Little Yellow Sub Studies Ocean
- Glaciers on California's Mt. Shasta Keep Growing
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* New Research Highlights
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Research/




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