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• Global Warming Likely to Be Amplified by Slow Changes to Earth Systems, Geologists Say

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2009) — The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide taking place today could have a significantly larger effect on global temperatures than previously thought, according to a new study led by Yale University geologists. Power plant. The kinds of increases in atmospheric carbon ...
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• Deepest Explosive Eruption on Sea Floor: Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason Images Discovery

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  The orange glow of magma is visible on the left of the sulfur-laden plume. The area shown in this image is approximately six feet across in an eruptive area approximately the length of a football field that runs along the summit. (Credit: Image courtesy of NSF, NOAA, and WHOI Advanced Imaging and Visualization Lab) ...
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• New Map Reveals Tsunami Risks in California

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  The map, released close to the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, will be helpful in emergency response planning. WEST COAST RISK: Some 350,000 California residents are at risk if a tsunami strikes there istockphoto SAN FRANCISCO—Just days before the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Indian ...
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• CIMSS Tropical Cyclones

  
  Google Earth Library — Authority: 126
  The Cooperative Institute of Meteorological Satellite Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center (CIMSS-SSEC) has created a huge set of weather related overlays that can be viewed in Google Earth.  Their program is focused on tropical cyclones, but they also have a large ...
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• AVHRR Satellite Imagery

  
  Google Earth Library — Authority: 126
  The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor collects cloud and other data from several satellites orbiting the Earth.  The University of Wisconsin has created an archive of AVHRR false color imagery dating back to 2007.  In addition, they have created a network link that updates automatically every ...
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• Mines Minister Says an Aerial Survey has Revealed More Minerals Deposits in Nigeria

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Nigeria’s Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, says the recently completed geophysical airborne survey of Nigeria has shown new mineral deposits. Alison-Madueke told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the minerals found in all the zones in Nigeria would soon be announced after ...
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• Earth’s Upper Atmosphere Cooling Dramatically

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  New research shows that the outermost layer of the atmosphere will lose 3 percent of its density over the coming decade, a sign of the far-reaching impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. As the density declines, orbiting satellites experience less drag. Credit: ©UCAR.   SAN FRANCISCO — When the sun is ...
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• Pre-Eruption Earthquakes Offer Clues to Volcano Forecasters

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) — Like an angry dog, a volcano growls before it bites, shaking the ground and getting "noisy" before erupting. This activity gives scientists an opportunity to study the tumult beneath a volcano and may help them improve the accuracy of eruption forecasts, according to Emily Brodsky, an ...
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• Earth’s Polar Ice Sheets Vulnerable to Even Moderate Global Warming; New Orleans, Much of Southern Florida, Expected to Be Permanently Submerged

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2009) — A new analysis of the geological record of the Earths sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approach that reveals the planets polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale ...
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• Melting of Greenland’s glaciers much more complex than previously imagined

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  Washington, December 17 (ANI): Scientists studying the melting of Greenland’s glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.Researchers previously thought that meltwater simply lubricated ice against the bedrock, speeding the flow of glaciers ...
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• Philippine volcano rumbles with fresh explosions

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  Lava cascades down the slopes of Mayon volcano in Legazpi city, Albay province, at dawn Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009 about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, PHIVOLCS, has raised the five-alert level to three following increased activity of the ...
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• Stop Disasters game

  
  moonlit garden — Authority: 109
  I recently found the Stop Disasters simulation games ( link ).  It gives you disaster scenarios and you select options to prevent death and property damage.  Little facts pop up as you play that inform you of the nature of your choices. I played the wild fire in Australia, the flooding in Europe, the hurricane in ...
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• Unveiling Mysterious Possible Comet Strikes on Earth

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  From the far reaches of the solar system, a giant asteroid or comet plunged into Earth near what is now the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago (shown in this artists conception). Credit: © The Virginian-Pilot. ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2009) — Its the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from ...
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• Portions of Arctic Coastline Eroding, No End in Sight, Says New Study

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates part of the northern Alaska coastline is eroding by up to 45 feet annually due to declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased wave activity. (Credit: Image courtesy Robert S. Anderson, University of Colorado) ScienceDaily (Dec. 15, 2009) ...
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• MODIS Today

  
  Google Earth Library — Authority: 126
  The MODIS Aqua and Terra satellites capture amazingly detailed natural color imagery every day from all over the Earth.  The imagery is detailed enough that you can easily see cloud formations, snow coverage, smoke from large fires, etc, for the entire US.  And the best part is the imagery from these satellites is ...
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• Cave ‘breathing’ regulates growth of stalactites

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  STALACTITES are formed by the drip, drip of water, right? Not entirely. The way caves "breathe" is the true controller, a finding which pours doubt on ancient climate records derived from these structures. Breath to produce stalactites (Image: Stephen Alvarez/NGS) Philip Froelich of Florida State University ...
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• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 515
    The Great Garbage Patch lies in the North Pacific Ocean, specifically in the center of a region known as the North Pacific Gyre. A Grye is a vortex formed by the current flow. There are five major ones in our worlds oceans. Things have a tendency to get sucked in and from there on, cannot get out without help.   ...
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• Earth’s Atmosphere Came from Outer Space, Scientists Find

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  New research suggests that the gases which formed Earths atmosphere — and probably its oceans — did not come from inside Earth but from outer space. (Credit: iStockphoto) ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — The gases which formed the Earths atmosphere — and probably its oceans — did not come from inside the ...
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• Swiss Scientists Measure Glacial Melting With Light

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  The Findel glacier lit up, superimposed with changes in the thickness up to 2009. The colors green to red represent the loss of ice, blue shows increased thickness. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Zurich) ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — The glaciers in Switzerland have been melting for years. ...
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• Sea Level Is Rising Along US Atlantic Coast, Say Environmental Scientists

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 449
  New Jersey coast. New research shows that sea-level rise along the Atlantic Coast of the United States was 2 millimeters faster in the 20th century than at any time in the past 4,000 years. (Credit: iStockphoto/Daniel Nydick) ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2009) — An international team of environmental scientists led ...
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