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Climate change means bigger medical, council and property bills

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Climate change concerns like melting icecaps, increased desertification, loss of coral reefs and the extinction of species like polar bears can seem a distant concern in our everyday lives. Little attention, however, has ...





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NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

NASA's TRMM satellite sees heavy rainfall in Choi-Wan

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over the center of Super Typhoon Choi-Wan at 2:34 EDT on September 17, 2009 and captured heavy rainfall around ...


TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's' rainfall from space

TRMM satellite mapped 'Ida the Low's' rainfall from space (w/ Video)

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite known as "TRMM" has the ability to measure rainfall from space, and assessed the heavy rainfall from last week's coastal low pressure area, formerly known ...


NASA 3-D map shows flooding rains of Typhoon Ketsana in Philippines

NASA 3-D map shows flooding rains of Typhoon Ketsana in Philippines

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite, orbits the Earth and measures the amount of rainfall created by a tropical cyclone. When Typhoon Ketsana (known in the Phillippines as "Ondoy") made ...


NASA data link pollution to rainy summer days in the southeast

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 02, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Rainfall data from a NASA satellite show that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends. Scientists say air pollution from humans is likely driving that trend.


NASA's TRMM satellite sees wide-eyed Hurricane Bill strengthening

NASA's TRMM satellite sees wide-eyed Hurricane Bill strengthening

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created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The TRMM satellite noticed a wide-eyed Hurricane Bill's rainfall is intensifying indicating he's getting stronger. Satellite images have also shown Bill's eye is widening.


NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts

NASA's TRMM Satellite sees most of Ida's heaviest rain stayed off coasts

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA and the Japanese Space Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite flew over Ida and captured her rainfall when she passed by Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize this weekend. TRMM data revealed ...


NASA satellite sees severe flooding rains from deadly typhoon morakot

NASA satellite sees severe flooding rains from deadly typhoon morakot (w/ Video)

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created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Typhoon Morakot brought enormous amounts of rainfall to Taiwan and China and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) estimated it from space.


Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...


Australia getting hotter and drier

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2007 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A new climate change study in Australia predicted the country will be 5 degree Celsius hotter and 40-80 percent drier by the year 2070.


NASA satellite still sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Neki

NASA satellite still sees heavy rainfall in Tropical Storm Neki

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created Oct 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tropical Storm Neki continues moving north and over the weekend it will be in open waters in the Central Atlantic. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite passed over Neki early on October ...



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