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French science vessel to start second leg of climate voyage

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Sep 04, 2010 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 1

The French yacht Tara leaves Sunday on the second leg of a three-year voyage across the world's oceans to chart the effects of climate change on micro-organisms which produce half our oxygen.

NASA hurricane researchers eye Earl's eye

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Sep 03, 2010 | not rated yet | 0 |

Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots (115 miles per hour), continues to push relentlessly toward the U.S. East Coast, and NASA ...

NASA satellite and International Space Station catch Earl weakening

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Sep 03, 2010 | not rated yet | 1

NASA satellites and the International Space Station are keeping eyes on Hurricane Earl as it heads for New England. Watches and Warnings are posted in the U.S. northeast.

New scenery at Earth's core-mantle boundary found

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Sep 02, 2010 | 5 / 5 (4) | 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a diamond-anvil cell to recreate the high pressures deep within the earth, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found unusual properties in an iron-rich magnesium- and ...

Water in Earth's mantle key to survival of oldest continents

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Sep 02, 2010 | 5 / 5 (5) | 2 |

Earth today is one of the most active planets in the Solar System, and was probably even more so during the early stages of its life. Thanks to the plate tectonics that continue to shape our planet's surface, ...

Earl's path along northeast is not well-worn

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Sep 02, 2010 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 1

Pushed by an ill-timed trough of low pressure, Hurricane Earl is heading uncomfortably close to an area relatively few hurricanes tend to go: the Northeast coastline.

New discovery could pave the way for identification of rogue CFC release

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Sep 02, 2010 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0 |

A new discovery by scientists at the Universities of East Anglia and Frankfurt could make it possible in future to identify the source of banned CFCs that are probably still being released into the atmosphere.

NASA sees Depression Nine become Gaston then back to a depression

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Sep 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

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.

NASA catches heavy rainfall happening in Category 4 Earl as it approaches the US

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Sep 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Hurricane Earl is still a powerful category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale as it approaches the North Carolina coast today. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite observed ...

Bermuda in warnings as the GOES-13 Satellite catches Fiona approaching

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Sep 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Bermuda has warnings up as Tropical Storm Fiona approaches, and GOES-13 satellite imagery from today shows that Fiona, although packing a punch, is a much smaller system that her brother, the Category 4 Hurricane ...

Thanks to high-tech, storm track easier to predict

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Sep 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Sophisticated computer models that replaced instinct with cold, hard math have helped forecasters predict where a storm like Hurricane Earl is going about twice as accurately as 20 years ago.

NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Kompasu transitioning over Korea and China

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Sep 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured the changing Tropical Storm Kompasu over Korea and China very early today, as it makes its way east to northern Japan. It is becoming extratropical.

Earth observation aids disaster relief in Pakistan

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Sep 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Devastating around a third of the country, it is estimated that the floods in Pakistan have affected up to 20 million people. As part of the effort to support humanitarian relief, satellite ...

Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl's heavy rainfall

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Sep 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense.

Global Hawk drone aircraft flies over Frank on the GRIP hurricane mission

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Sep 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

NASA's 2010 hurricane experiment is in full swing as the tropics have heated up. NASA's Global Hawk unmanned aircraft was sent out over this past weekend to conduct measurements on then Tropical Storm Frank ...

Fault finding: UCI seismologist finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas

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Sep 01, 2010 | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCI seismologist Lisa Grant Ludwig finds far more frequent earthquakes along the San Andreas fault.

Critical polar data flows briskly to researchers

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Sep 01, 2010 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Operation IceBridge -- a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice -- is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October. The mission is now paralleled ...

Infrared NASA image shows strong convection in new Atlantic Depression 9

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Sep 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

The Atlantic Ocean is in overdrive this week, and NASA satellite imagery captured the birth of the ninth tropical depression in the central Atlantic Ocean today, trailing to the east of Tropical Storm Fiona.