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New international satellite observations help assess future earthquake risk in Haiti

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9 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Virginia Key, Florida--Scientists at the University of Miami have analyzed images based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations taken before and just after Haiti's earthquake, on January 12. The images ...

UB geographers help map devastation in Haiti

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13 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to enhance the international response and recovery effort by helping to assess damage, using images hosted ...

Drought in SW Australia linked to snowfall in Antarctica

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Feb 07, 2010 | 3.7 / 5 (23) | 28

A drought that has gripped the southwestern corner of Australia since the 1970s is linked with higher snowfall in East Antarctica, a phenomenon that may be rooted in global warming, scientists reported on ...

Cyclone Oli reaches category 4 strength on its way to open waters

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Feb 04, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Oli has exploded in strength and as of February 4 it was a Category 4 cyclone with peak sustained winds of 132 mph (115 knots/213 km/hr). NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites observed Oli's clouds grow colder and ...

Mining destruction for data to help others

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Feb 04, 2010 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

William Holmes was at his desk at a downtown San Francisco engineering firm when a message from the U.S. Geological Survey flashed onto his computer screen: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake had struck 10 miles from the Haitian ...

Black carbon a significant factor in melting of Himalayan glaciers

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Feb 03, 2010 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 3 |

The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ...

NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Tropical Depression Fami fading fast

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Feb 03, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Now that Fami has crossed Madagascar, its fading fast. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared satellite image earlier today that showed the storm was elongating and losing its circulation.

Now a hurricane, Oli passing Bora Bora

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Feb 03, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Tropical cyclone Oli has attained hurricane strength today, February 3, with maximum sustained winds near 74 mph.

JPL Airborne Radar Captures Its First Image of Post-Quake Haiti

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- JPL's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) captured this false-color composite image of the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding region on Jan. 27, 2010. ...

Aznalcollar disaster compared with Cretaceous mass extinction

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Feb 02, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (6) | 1

Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) have compared the disaster caused by the Aznalcóllar spillage in the Doñana National Park in Andalusia 11 years ago with the biggest species extinction ...

Tropical Storm Oli kicking up waves in south Pacific

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Feb 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Tropical Storm Oli is headed between the islands of Bora Bora and Raratonga in the South Pacific, while maintaining its intensity as a tropical storm. Infrared satellite data from NASA's Aqua satellite reveals ...

NASA satellite sees Tropical Storm Fami form, fast and furious

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Feb 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

NASA's Aqua satellite caught the thirteenth tropical cyclone in the southern Indian Ocean form very quickly. In 12 hours a low grew into a tropical storm named Fami and made a fast landfall in Madagascar around ...

Big study of dirty air inversions

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Feb 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

At times this winter, the greater Salt Lake City area has harbored the most polluted air in the United States. Now, researchers from the University of Utah and other institutions are starting a three-year, ...

Computer model demonstrates that white roofs may successfully cool cities

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Feb 01, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (8) | 5 |

Painting the roofs of buildings white has the potential to significantly cool cities and mitigate some impacts of global warming, a new study indicates. The research, which is the first computer modeling study to simulate ...

Olga now raining on third of 5 Australia territories

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Feb 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Australians in three of five territories have had enough of Tropical Cyclone Olga. After two landfalls, and three times a tropical storm, and traveling through Queensland and the Northern Territory, Olga's ...

Tropical Storm Oli forms in the southern Pacific

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Feb 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

The twelfth tropical cyclone in the Southern Pacific Ocean has formed today, February 1, 2010, and because of its proximity to the Fiji islands, it has been dubbed "Oli." The GOES-11 satellite passed over Oli early this morning ...

Haiti earthquake a reminder that disasters are preventable, CU-Boulder expert says

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

Amid all the commentary focused on the historic tragedy in Haiti, a tough but important fact has gone virtually unmentioned, according to a nationally recognized expert on disasters at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Tropical Storm Olga: Three times a lady

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Jan 29, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Just like 1980s song by the Commodores, "Three Times a Lady," Olga has become a tropical storm for the third time in northern Australia. NASA satellite imagery showed that Olga's center moved back into the ...