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Groundwater depletion maybe major source of atmospheric carbon dioxide
Nov 22, 2017 (SPX)
The study's authors estimate groundwater depletion in the United States could be responsible for releasing 1.7 million metric tons (3.8 billion pounds) of carbo...
NASA Links Port-City Sea Levels to Regional Ice Melt
Nov 22, 2017 (JPL)
All coastal cities will see some impacts of global sea level rise. But the new tool shows that, for example, New York City is more strongly affected by melting ...
Satellite Imagery Aids Rescue Efforts for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria
Nov 21, 2017 (SPX)
How strong is this storm going to be? What kind of damage occurred on its path through the Caribbean? How might it impact southeast Texas once it makes landfall...
SSTL to build UrtheDaily Constellation for UrtheCast
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
The UrtheDaily spacecraft are based on the SSTL-250 platform and will be built by SSTL at its facilities in Guildford UK. The spacecraft will deliver high-resol...
How storms will veer in a warmer world
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
In a paper that that was recently published in Nature Geoscience, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers provide new insight into this phenomenon by discover...
Mapping functional diversity of forests with remote sensing
Nov 16, 2017 (SPX)
Diverse plant communities show increased resource use efficiency and utilization, enhanced ecosystem productivity and stability and can better cope with changin...
Ozone ups and downs
Nov 16, 2017 (ESA)
The part of Earth's atmosphere with high concentrations of ozone gas protects life on Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. However, pollutants can break ...
Satellite spots springtime phytoplankton bloom off New Zealand coast
Nov 15, 2017 (UPI)
While temperatures drop and days lengthen on the north half of Earth to the equator, the Southern Hemisphere is awakening to spring. The warming temperatures an...
Long March 4C launches Fengyun 3D meteorological satellite
Nov 15, 2017 (XNA)
A Long March 4C rocket carried the satellite into space. The satellite has entered its orbit. Fengyun-3D is one of China's second generation of Polar-Orbiting M...
NASA readies for another JPSS-1 launch attempt
Nov 14, 2017 (UPI)
The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 was supposed to be carried into orbit in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, but the United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket's b...
The changing colors of our Living Planet
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
Meanwhile, in the oceans, microscopic plants drift through the sunlit surface waters and bloom into billions of carbon dioxide-absorbing organisms - and light-d...
How ice in clouds is born
Nov 14, 2017 (SPX)
Their research shows that when water droplets freeze in clouds, the structure of the ice crystal isn't necessarily the classic hexagonal snowflake structure. Ra...
Green rooves to reduce the effects of climate change
Nov 13, 2017 (SPX)
In this project, published in the review Building and Environment, they have used Landsat 7 ETM+ and Sentinel-2 satellite images to obtain the normalised differ...
Global 2% rise in CO2 'giant leap backwards for humankind'
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
"This is very disappointing," said Corinne Le Quere, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia and lead author...
NASA CubeSat to Test Miniaturized Weather Satellite Technology
Nov 10, 2017 (SPX)
Weather satellites have traditionally been large, both in the effort needed to build them and in actual size. They can take several years to build and can be as...
FIMI completes control acquisition transaction in IAI's ImageSat
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
The agreement further stipulates that ISI shall buy the new observation satellite 'EROS C' from IAI and at the transaction closing date, shall pay IAI $35 milli...
NASA Satellite Tracks Ozone Pollution by Monitoring Its Key Ingredients
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
New NASA-funded research has devised a way to use satellite measurements of the precursor gases that contribute to ozone formation to differentiate among three ...
Blue Canyon to build CubeSat constellation for NASA hurricane observation
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
The 3U spacecraft will be built at BCT's new Spacecraft Manufacturing Center (with over 45,000 sq. ft. of laboratory and office space) located in Boulder, Color...
JPSS-1 to Provide More Accurate Environmental Forecasts
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
JPSS-1 is the first in NOAA's series of four, next-generation operational environmental satellites designed to circle the Earth in a polar orbit. The JPSS progr...
Warm Air Helped Make 2017 Ozone Hole Smallest Since 1988
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
According to NASA, the ozone hole reached its peak extent on Sept. 11, covering an area about two and a half times the size of the United States - 7.6 million s...
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