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Stanford land-use expert brings satellite data down to Earth
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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By integrating remote satellite imagery with revelations from door-to-door interviews, Stanford University geographer Eric Lambin and his colleagues are exploring the complex conditions that give rise to a broad range of land-use challenges - from the reforestation of Vietnam to the spread of Lyme disease in Belgium. (2010-09-08)
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Death of the "Doughnut": How Quaggas Are Casting a Pall on the Lake Michigan Fishery
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Something has been eating Charlie Kerfoot's doughnut, and all fingers point to a European mollusk about the size of a fat lima bean. (2010-09-07)
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Carbon mapping breakthrough
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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By integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the World Wildlife Fund and in coordination with the Peruvian Ministry of the Environment (MINAM), have revealed the first high-resolution maps of carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices. (2010-09-07)
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NASA sees Depression Nine become Gaston then back to a depression
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a depression again. (2010-09-03)
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Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. But the research team also noted that big agribusiness has largely replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia, which may make it easier to rein in the trend. (2010-09-03)
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Earth from Space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. (2010-09-03)
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University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday. (2010-09-01)
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3-D movies via Internet and satellite
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Blockbusters like Avatar, UP or Toy Story 3 will bring the 3-D into home living rooms, televisions and computers. (2010-08-27)
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Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Large changes in the sun's energy output may drive unexpectedly dramatic fluctuations in Earth's outer atmosphere. (2010-08-27)
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Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. (2010-08-25)
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See amazing new sun images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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NJIT Distinguished Professor Philip R. Goode and the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) team have achieved "first light" using a deformable mirror in what is called adaptive optics at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). (2010-08-25)
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NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Frank powering back up near Mexico
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Tropical Storm Frank was wavering overnight in the eastern Pacific Ocean, just off the southwest Mexican coast, and recent satellite data has confirmed that convection has strengthened within the storm. (2010-08-25)
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Sensors more accurately map the Chesapeake Bay's forested wetlands
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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Two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have created new maps of Chesapeake Bay forested wetlands that are about 30 percent more accurate than existing maps. (2010-08-16)
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NOAA scientists uncover oscillating patterns in clouds
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09/09/2010 01:41 AM
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For all who have ever lain on their backs and gazed at clouds adrift in the blue: A new NOAA study has found that clouds "communicate" with each other, much like chirping crickets or flashing fireflies on a summer night. (2010-08-12)
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