http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Tropical Storm Laurence tracked through Darwin Australia this weekend before sliding back into the Timor Sea and now Laurence is forecast to make a second landfall in Australia. Laurence is forecast to make landfall north of Wyndham then parallel the coastline while moving over land for the next couple of days. http://www.physorg.com/news180039538.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:00:03 EST news180039538 Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy, particularly for tropical nations. New technology, developed by a team of scientists at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, is revolutionizing forest monitoring by marrying free satellite imagery and powerful analytical methods in an easy-to-use, desktop software package called CLASlite. Thus far, 70 government, non-government, and academic organizations in five countries have adopted the technology, with more on the horizon. http://www.physorg.com/news179662158.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:20:03 EST news179662158 A monster iceberg nearly twice the size of Hong Kong island has been spotted drifting towards Australia in what scientists Wednesday called a once-in-a-century event. http://www.physorg.com/news179556530.html Space & Earth Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:49:33 EST news179556530 NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites flew over Tropical Depression Nida and System 97W in the Western Pacific Ocean and noticed that one is fading while the other is powering up. http://www.physorg.com/news179072054.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:30:01 EST news179072054 Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning -learning by repeated exposure to a stimulus -can occur by mental imagery as much as by the real thing. The results, published in Current Biology, suggest that thinking about something over and over again could actually be as good as doing it. http://www.physorg.com/news179067145.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:30:01 EST news179067145 Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular shape. Meanwhile, System 97W located to Nida's southeast looks ominous on NASA satellite imagery. http://www.physorg.com/news178997145.html Space & Earth Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:26:56 EST news178997145 NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Cyclone Bongani today and provided some important data that have helped forecasters figure out where the storm is headed, and helped them see that it has changed course. http://www.physorg.com/news178381962.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:00:02 EST news178381962 Anja has continued to weaken over the last 24 hours, and NASA's QuikScat satellite has confirmed that the once mighty Category 4 Cyclone is now a tropical storm in the southern Indian Ocean. Two instruments on NASA's Aqua satellite have also helped forecasters determine Anja's location and change of shape. http://www.physorg.com/news177765379.html Space & Earth Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:17:36 EST news177765379 Satellite imagery and weather ground station readings today along the Mid-Atlantic indicate "Ida the coastal low pressure area" is finally moving away from the U.S. east coast. http://www.physorg.com/news177359826.html Space & Earth Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:00:03 EST news177359826 (AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news177271650.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:01 EST news177271650 Ida is one stubborn girl. Her remnants have moved out to sea and reformed as a powerful coastal low pressure system that's been raining on the mid-Atlantic since Tuesday night, November 10. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-12 captures images of the low's cloud cover several times every hour, and shows its cloud cover stretching from North Carolina up to Maine. Rains are currently confined to the Mid-Atlantic from North Carolina to New Jersey, but will creep north with the progression of the low. http://www.physorg.com/news177248248.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:38:00 EST news177248248 Tropical Cyclone 4A formed yesterday, November 10 off the western coast of India in the Arabian Sea, and NASA's infrared imagery captured some high, powerful thunderstorms developing in the storm's center. http://www.physorg.com/news177086576.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:02 EST news177086576 Mirinae (Santi) caused 12 hours of flooding rains in the Philippines when it crossed the northern Luzon region over the weekend. On October 31 at 5 a.m. Local (Asia/Manila) Time (October 30 at 2100 UTC) Typhoon Mirinae weakened dramatically after it moved inland over central Luzon, the Philippines. By October 31 at 5 p.m. Local time, Mirinae had already reemerged into the South China Sea as a tropical storm and was headed for Vietnam, but it left behind floods, destruction and death. Mirinae made landfall in Vietnam early this morning, Eastern Time. http://www.physorg.com/news176396119.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:01 EST news176396119 When NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the Philippine Sea during the early morning hours today, November 2 infrared imagery saw another new tropical cyclone coming together. http://www.physorg.com/news176395921.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:10:01 EST news176395921 Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Typhoon Mirinae's cold thunderstorm clouds were already over sections of the central and northern Philippines on October 30 at 4:53 p.m. (Asia/Manila) local time. Mirinae is also known as "Santi" in the Philippines. http://www.physorg.com/news176142930.html Space & Earth Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:36:20 EST news176142930 Typhoon Mirinae is moving west and away from the Northern Marianas Islands on a track to a landfall in the Philippines by the weekend. As Mirinae has moved west, NASA's infrared and microwave satellite imagery have seen high, strong thunderstorm development, and a developing eye. http://www.physorg.com/news175964360.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:07:13 EST news175964360 Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones on Wednesday in a move seen as a potential challenge to the makers of GPS navigation devices. http://www.physorg.com/news175954530.html Electronics Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:16:08 EST news175954530 Two ingredients that don't mix well with tropical cyclones are waters cooler than 80 degrees Fahrenheit and wind shear. Those two ingredients were added into Tropical Depression Neki's mix late yesterday, and caused Neki to dissipate. http://www.physorg.com/news175875420.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:30:01 EST news175875420 Typhoon Lupit is closing in on northern Luzon, the Philippines, and is expected to make a brief landfall (of about 24 hours) there October 22 before heading into the South China Sea. http://www.physorg.com/news175275821.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:50:01 EST news175275821 Lupit has joined the ranks of super typhoons in the Western Pacific Ocean, and is currently packing maximum sustained winds near 132 mph, down from a previous peak near 149 mph, but still a Category Four strength typhoon. http://www.physorg.com/news175189245.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:10:01 EST news175189245 Three instruments on NASA's Aqua satellite captured views of Typhoon Lupit on its western track toward the Philippines and are helping forecasters get an idea of its strength and behavior. Lupit strengthened quickly in 24 hours from a tropical depression to a typhoon, between October 15 and 16. http://www.physorg.com/news174933836.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:44:30 EST news174933836 Based on computer forecast models, the residents of southern and central Baja California should prepare over the weekend for now Tropical Storm Rick. Rick formed late yesterday, October 15, and is expected to become a major hurricane over the weekend. NASA satellite imagery captured the storm this morning as a strong tropical storm off the western Mexican coast. NASA infrared satellite imagery suggests an eyewall forming indicating the storm is powering up. http://www.physorg.com/news174911512.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:32:22 EST news174911512 The nineteenth tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific formed over this past weekend, and strengthened into Tropical Storm Patricia. The GOES-11 satellite captured Patricia from her "birth" several hundred miles south of Baja California, to her track there today, Tuesday, October 13. http://www.physorg.com/news174675455.html Space & Earth Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:58:33 EST news174675455 Depression happens to everyone, even tropical storms, and Henri is now tropically depressed. NASA satellite imagery has confirmed he's weakened to a tropical depression and he is further expected to degenerate into a remnant low pressure area. http://www.physorg.com/news174245480.html Space & Earth Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:10:01 EST news174245480 NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Typhoon Ketsana during its lifetime and captured infrared imagery on a daily basis. The images showed high, cold, thunderstorm cloud tops (purple) as cold as -63F, as they dumped heavy rains over the northern Philippines and Vietnam. http://www.physorg.com/news173551364.html Space & Earth Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:43:09 EST news173551364 Marty is struggling to hold onto tropical storm status, and things are just going to get worse for him, as he moves into an area with stronger wind shear. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed that Marty's thunderstorm cloud tops are not as cold as they were earlier today, September 17, and his cloud pattern has become a little less organized. http://www.physorg.com/news172423835.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:30:02 EST news172423835 NASA's Aqua satellite again flew over Super Typhoon Choi-Wan late last night and captured visible and infrared imagery of the monster typhoon. Aqua's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument and Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured two different views of Choi-Wan's clouds. http://www.physorg.com/news172423696.html Space & Earth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:30:15 EST news172423696 (PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are developing a system that saves water by using aerial imagery and ground-based sensors to determine the irrigation needs of small sections of cultivated fields. http://www.physorg.com/news172221466.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:30:02 EST news172221466 The latest tropical storm in the western Pacific formed on Sunday, and is poised to make landfall in mainland China on Tuesday, near typhoon strength (74 mph). Two NASA satellites captured different views of its clouds. http://www.physorg.com/news172151910.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:50:01 EST news172151910 Microwave imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed extremely high thunderstorms in Typhoon Choi-Wan as it began passing the island of Sai-Pan in the Western Pacific Ocean. The U.S. National Weather Service has already issued a tropical storm warning and a typhoon watch for Tinian, Saipan and Agrihan in the Northern Mariana Islands. http://www.physorg.com/news172151667.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:30:01 EST news172151667