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    Earth's Clouds Lowering

    This image of clouds over the southern Indian Ocean was acquired by NASA’s polar-orbiting Terra spacecraft. The featured study revealed an overall trend of decreasing global cloud height during...

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    Height of Earth's forests

    Knowing the height of Earth's forests is critical to estimating their biomass. This map can be used to improve global efforts to monitor carbon. NASA Map Sees Earth's Trees in a New...

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    Recording ground motion from earthquakes

    Transportable Array seismometers are extremely sensitive. They can detect earthquakes at magnitude 5.0 or greater--"sensing" them as far away as the opposite side of the planet--as well as...

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NEWS ARTICLES

TITLE AUTHOR DATE COMMENTS RATING
Earth's Clouds Lowering
2/22/12 0
Average: 4/5
Height of Earth's forests
2/20/12 0
Average: 4/5
Recording ground motion from earthquakes
2/17/12 0
Average: 4/5
Considering 200 Years of Infectious Diseases
2/3/12 0
Average: 3.5/5
2011: Ninth Warmest Year
1/21/12 0
Average: 4/5
Public Input: Deepwater Horizon Accident Early Restoration Plan
1/15/12 0
Average: 5/5
Scaptia beyonceae: new species of fly
1/13/12 0
Average: 4/5
National Ocean Policy Action Plan
1/12/12 0
Average: 4/5
Estimate of Deepwater oil spill rate
1/10/12 0
Average: 4/5
A World Environment Organisation?
1/9/12 0
Average: 4/5
Tox21: screening chemicals
National Institute of Environmental Healt 1/3/12 0
Average: 3.5/5
Tracking Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris
12/30/11 0
Average: 4/5
Comments: NOAA draft environmental impact statement on Arctic oil and gas exploration
12/28/11 0
Average: 4/5
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions
12/21/11 0
Average: 4/5
Protecting Human Subjects in Research
12/19/11 0
Average: 5/5
Catching a Coral Killer
12/19/11 0
Average: 4/5
Air pollution worsens drought and flooding
11/14/11 0
Average: 4/5
Climate Change Escape Routes
11/4/11 0
Average: 4/5
Human-caused climate change a factor in Mediterranean droughts
10/28/11 0
Average: 4/5
Value of Hawaiis coral reef ecosystems
10/23/11 0
Average: 4/5

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