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)) Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:06:02 -0400 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:06:02 -0400 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/Subscribe/feeds.php?src=eorss-ann Visit NASA's Earth Observatory on Facebook or Twitter, and check out our Image of the Day widgets for use on your Facebook or iGoogle pages. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Subscribe/feeds.php?src=eorss-ann http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39164&src=eorss-iotd True-color images of the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado show a dramatic difference in snow appearance between 2008 and 2009. In 2009, dust has colored the snow dull brown and accelerated snowmelt. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39164&src=eorss-iotd http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39168&src=eorss-nh This true-color image from July 1, 2009, shows a series of giant dust plumes west of Mauritania. The smallest and most concentrated plume appears east of Cape Verde. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:19:33 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39168&src=eorss-nh http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39148&src=eorss-nh This true-color image shows dust from Sudan forming a clockwise arc over the Red Sea, barely missing the Saudi Arabian coast, on June 30, 2009. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:33:33 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39148&src=eorss-nh http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39133&src=eorss-nh This true-color image shows a dust storm blowing over the desiccated Southern Aral Sea in late June 2009. Dust blows over southern Kazakhstan and across Uzbekistan. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:08:14 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39133&src=eorss-nh http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39120&src=eorss-nh A pair of before-and-after images shows how the June 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak Volcano transformed Matua Island. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:05:46 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39120&src=eorss-nh http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39118&src=eorss-nh This true-color image shows an almost perfectly circular plume from Shiveluch Volcano poking above a cloudbank on June 29, 2009. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:37:10 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39118&src=eorss-nh http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39108&src=eorss-nh This true-color image shows dust plumes hovering over Turkey on June 27, 2009. A faint haze of dust also appears over western Iran. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:10:02 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=39108&src=eorss-nh http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39114&src=eorss-nnews See the tracks of 2008 storms from Arthur to Paloma from birth to death. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39114&src=eorss-nnews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39115&src=eorss-nnews The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space today after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39115&src=eorss-nnews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39080&src=eorss-nnews Scientists know that aerosols play an outsized role in Earth’s climate, and much of that knowledge has come from the Aerosol Robotic Network, or AERONET, a collaborative, international sensor network. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39080&src=eorss-nnews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39081&src=eorss-nnews A deadly earthquake rocked Honduras, but SERVIR helped disaster officials know exactly where to send help. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39081&src=eorss-nnews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39082&src=eorss-nnews A NASA satellite, now entering its second decade, has revolutionized marine weather forecasts. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39082&src=eorss-nnews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/yellowstone.php?src=eorss-features In 1988, wildfires raced through Yellowstone National Park, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres. This series of Landsat images tracks the landscape’s slow recovery through 2008. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/yellowstone.php?src=eorss-features http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39086&src=eorss-manews Geologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient ice age, once regarded as a brief "blip," in fact lasted for 30 million years. (University of Leicester press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39086&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39087&src=eorss-manews Emergency plans to counteract global warming by artificially shading the Earth from incoming sunlight might lower the planet's temperature a few degrees, but such "geoengineering" solutions would do little to stop the acidification of the world oceans that threatens coral reefs and other marine life, report the authors of a new study. (Carnegie Institution press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39087&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39088&src=eorss-manews A national report that details risks from warming, as well as ways to adapt to future conditions. (University of Arizona press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39088&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39089&src=eorss-manews An international team of researchers now provides some of the very first detailed answers as to what exactly was happening on land, in northern latitudes, during the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene. (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39089&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39090&src=eorss-manews Researchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on its role in the Earth's cycles of cooling and warming. (The Earth Institute at Columbia University press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39090&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39091&src=eorss-manews Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo. (University at Buffalo press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39091&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39092&src=eorss-manews Some of the substances that are helping to avert the destruction of the ozone layer could increasingly contribute to climate warming, according to a new study. (NOAA Headquarters press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39092&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39093&src=eorss-manews Scientists have reconstructed sea-level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years, and comparison of this record with data on global climate and CO2 levels from Antarctic ice cores suggests that even stabilization at today's CO2 levels may commit us to much greater sea-level rise over the next couple of millennia than previously thought. (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK) press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39093&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39094&src=eorss-manews Global warming will likely mean more unpredictable weather, scientists say, and a new study pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an area's fall and winter may effect tornado activity the following spring. (University of Georgia press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39094&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39095&src=eorss-manews Researchers have found that wind speeds across the country have decreased by an average of 0.5 percent to 1 percent per year since 1973. (Iowa State University press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39095&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39096&src=eorss-manews The recent increase in area burned by wildfires in the Western United States is a product not of higher temperatures or longer fire seasons alone, but a complex relationship between climate and fuels that varies among different ecosystems, according to a study conducted by US Forest Service and university scientists. (USDA Forest Service press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39096&src=eorss-manews http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39097&src=eorss-manews An international oceanographic research expedition to the middle of the South Pacific Gyre found so few organisms beneath the seafloor that it may be the least inhabited sediment ever explored for evidence of life. (University of Rhode Island press release) Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39097&src=eorss-manews