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The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to launch a new environmental satellite on November 2nd — the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will measure soil moisture over the Earth's landmasses and salinity over the oceans.
Read MoreThe UN food agency has announced it will make available satellite imaging free to developing countries to underpin avoided deforestation efforts, while a partnership of governments and space agencies announces a new system to produce comprehensive annual assessments of global forest changes.
Read MoreOver thousands of years, the remains of plants (and animals) that never fully decomposed have become part of the frozen soil in Alaska, Canada, northern Europe, and Russia.
Read MoreThree 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 15th and 16th.
Read MoreIndia will soon join a select space club by launching two dedicated satellites in polar orbit to study climate change through atmospheric research and detection of greenhouse gases, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said last Sunday.
Read MoreNASA satellite imagery has confirmed that tropical storm Henri has now weakened to a tropical depression — he is further expected to degenerate into a remnant low pressure area, much to his disappointment, but with much glee by those in the region of his frenetic wanderings.
Read MoreOnce a powerful Super Typhoon, Parma crossed over the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines, on October 3rd, 2009, as a Category 1 typhoon.
Read MoreForecasters were watching a storm they designated as 91 on October 6th, until it organized into a tropical cyclone east of the Leeward Islands around 5:00 p.m. EDT. It was then named "Tropical Storm Henri," the eighth named tropical cyclone of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Read MoreThe Meteo-France Centre on La Reunion, which is in charge of cyclone warnings for the south-western part of the Indian Ocean, recently installed a new antenna allowing it to receive data from EUMETSAT’s Metop-A and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s NOAA-17, -18 and -19 polar-orbiting satellites.
Read MoreA wall of dust stretched from northern Queensland to the southern tip of eastern Australia on the morning of September 23, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image.
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