http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ Your source for monitoring regional and global changes on our planet through images and stories. en-us (PICS-1.1 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true comment "RSACi North America Server" for "http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/" on "2000.09.27T15:55-0800" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0)) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:05:02 -0500 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:05:02 -0500 Goran.Halusa@nasa.gov (Goran Halusa) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/feeds/eo_feed_logo.gif http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 144 46 Your source for monitoring regional and global changes on our planet through images and stories. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=41016&src=eorss-iotd These true-color images show a wadi in northern Niger on September 19, 2007, and September 18, 2009. The 2007 shows the wadi populated by plants that have taken advantage of recent precipitation. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41101&src=eorss-nh A gray-white film of haze or fog blankets eastern China in this photo-like image from November 6, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41046&src=eorss-nh The arc and waves of a pale brown plume of dust complement the swirls of blue and green in the South Atlantic Ocean in this photo-like image from November 5, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41013&src=eorss-nh Tropical Storm Ida sprawls over Nicaragua and Honduras in this natural-color image from November 5, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41011&src=eorss-nh Pu'u 'O'o and the Thanksgiving Eve Breakout vent on Kilauea--two centers of volcanic activity--emit steam and other gases in this satellite image. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41006&src=eorss-nh Acquired November 4, 2009 (top), and October 24, 2009 (bottom), these images show the effects of heavy rains along the Illinois River. Vegetation appears bright green, water appears navy, and clouds appear pale blue-green in these false-color images. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=41004&src=eorss-nh A river of smoke pours out of northwestern India and over the Arabian Sea in this true-color image from November 4, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40993&src=eorss-nh Acquired on October 25 and November 1, 2009, these false-color images show flooding in eastern Arkansas, most obvious in the swollen White River. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40990&src=eorss-nh A pale plume of dust sweeps northeast from the Egyptian desert in this true-color image from November 4, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40988&src=eorss-nh Fires burned in the Buckland Tableland area of eastern Queensland on November 4, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40986&src=eorss-nh A cloud of black smoke billows from a burning oil fire near Jiapur, India on November 2, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40984&src=eorss-nh Although Mirinae was weakening, its winds maintained the classic spiral structure associated with well-organized tropical cyclones in this image of the storm’s wind structure on November 1, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40977&src=eorss-nh The mountains and plains of Colorado were blanketed with snow on October 3, 2009, after the season’s first blizzard. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40973&src=eorss-nh Strong winds over Alaska’s Copper River blows a distinctive plume of pale brown sediment over the Gulf of Alaska in this true-color image from October 30, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=40971&src=eorss-nh Thick smoke from agricultural fires, perhaps combined with urban air pollution and dust, veiled the skies over northwest India on November 1, 2009. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=40975&src=eorss-nnews Scientists have known for years that methane and carbon monoxide have a warming effect, but new findings suggest these gases have a significantly more powerful warming impact than previously thought. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=40976&src=eorss-nnews With seven science flights over Antarctica completed in the first 13 days of Operation Ice Bridge's southern campaign in NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory, the mission is on track to complete its planned flights by mid-November. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41035&src=eorss-manews Satellite images compiled over a decade to study volcanic activity in Kenya's section of the African Rift show deformation of four active volcanoes, which underscores the possibility for human hazard. (University of Miami press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41036&src=eorss-manews A new study examines some of the potential problems with current prediction methods and calls for the use of a range of approaches when predicting the impact of climate change on organisms. (Lehigh University press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41037&src=eorss-manews A study concluded that greener land cover contributes to cooler temperatures, and almost any other change leads to warmer temperatures. (Purdue University press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41038&src=eorss-manews The vast muddy expanses of the abyssal plains occupy about 60 percent of the Earth's surface and are important in global carbon cycling, and based on long-term studies of two such areas, a new paper shows that animal communities on the abyssal seafloor are affected in a variety of ways by climate change. (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41039&src=eorss-manews Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics. (Ohio State University press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41040&src=eorss-manews About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from US waters as they move farther offshore, according to a new study. (NOAA press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41041&src=eorss-manews The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain. (Ohio State University Institute press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41042&src=eorss-manews A research team has corroborated evidence that oxygen production began in Earth's oceans at least 100 million years before the Great Oxidation Event. (University of California – Riverside press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41043&src=eorss-manews For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits. (University of Washington press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41044&src=eorss-manews Researchers here have discovered the pivotal role that volcanoes played in a deadly ice age 450 million years ago. (Ohio State University press release) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=41045&src=eorss-manews The possibility that climate change might simply be a natural variation like others that have occurred throughout geologic time is dimming, according to new research. (University at Buffalo press release)