Water
Brazil green light for Amazon dam
Originally Published by BBC News - Science & Environment
Brazil’s government approves the controversial construction on a tributary of the Amazon of the world’s third biggest hydroelectric dam.
‘Dry water’ could make a big splash commercially, help fight global warming
Originally Published by ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
Posted on
August 28th, 2010
Climate, Water, Would You Believe?
Columbia River salmon, steelhead returns look good
Originally Published by The News Tribune
Posted on
August 25th, 2010
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Water
Congo River Journey Ends in Boat Troubles
Originally Published by NY Times
Posted on
August 23rd, 2010
Biodiversity, Water
Smos satellite tracks Pakistan floods
Originally Published by BBC News
Posted on
August 20th, 2010
Disasters, Earth Observation, Water
The Moon ‘too dry to have life’
Originally Published by BBC News - Science & Environment
Posted on
August 8th, 2010
Water, Would You Believe?
Giant rubbish islands threaten China dams
Originally Published by Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
Everglades on Unesco danger list
Originally Published by BBC News - Science & Environment
Posted on
August 5th, 2010
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Water
Tom Wiener on the IEEE’s World Vision and Work with GEO
IEEE joined the ad hoc Group on Earth Observations in 2004 to help define an entirely new and “virtual” structure, a Global Earth Observation System of Systems. When completed, GEOSS will provide a framework for Earth observation data collected worldwide by thousands of instruments and in-situ methods. This vast cache of information will be catalogued and made accessible through functional interoperability to ensure that everyone in the world can use it—for free or minimal cost. In this Earthzine interview, Dr. Thomas F. Wiener, Chair of the IEEE Committee on Earth Observation, discusses how IEEE’s involvement with GEO has grown.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
July 12th, 2010
Earth Observation, Featured Person, GEOSS/ICEO News, Water
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Pay the true price of water | Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Originally Published by Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
Posted on
June 28th, 2010
Agriculture, Water
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Orbital Sunrise
The Expedition 24 crew on the International Space Station photographed this image of polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by an orbital sunrise. Polar mesospheric, or noctilucent ("night shining"), clouds usually are seen at twilight, following the setting of the sun below the horizon and darkening of Earth's surface. Occasionally the station's orbital track becomes nearly parallel to Earth's day/night terminator for a time, allowing the clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight because of the station's altitude. This photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting, sun at center right. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. The station was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The orbital complex was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent "sunrise" located almost due north. A similar unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, terminator position and seasonal position of Earth's orbit around the sun allowed for this striking imagery of over the Southern Hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA
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