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Key ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent

Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)

A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursda...

ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice

Apr 05, 2012 (ESA)

Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly unde...

NASA Sees Fields of Green Spring up in Saudi Arabia

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

Saudi Arabia is drilling for a resource possibly more precious than oil. Over the last 24 years, it has tapped hidden reserves of water to grow wheat and other ...

Checking CryoSat reveals rising Antarctic blue ice

Mar 30, 2012 (ESA)

Field measurements in the spectacular blue ice region of Antarctica not only provide confidence in the accuracy of ESA's CryoSat mission, but have also shown th...

West Antarctic Ice Shelves Tearing Apart at the Seams

Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)

A new study examining nearly 40 years of satellite imagery has revealed that the floating ice shelves of a critical portion of West Antarctica are steadily losi...

Signs of thawing permafrost revealed from space

Mar 29, 2012 (ESA)

Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse gases into parts of ...

NASA GRACE Data Hit Big Apple on World Water Day

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

To highlight declines in the world's groundwater supplies, a new visualization of Earth's groundwater reserves, created in part with space data from the joint N...

ESRI Geospatial Technology Promotes Local Food Systems in US

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

As part of the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) ongoing commitment to support local and regional food systems, it recently released the KYF2 Compass Map. T...

Google opens Amazon wilds to armchair explorers

Mar 21, 2012 (AFP)

Google's free online map service on Wednesday began letting people explore portions of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their homes. Pictures taken along th...

Spotting ancient sites, from space

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

A Harvard archaeologist has dramatically simplified the process of finding early human settlements by using computers to scour satellite images for the tell-tal...

Satellite images identify early human settlements

Mar 19, 2012 (AFP)

An American archaeologist has used satellite images and a computer program to uncover thousands of ancient human settlements in Syria, according to a research s...

Investigation of Earth Catastrophes From the ISS: Uragan Program

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

The Uragan program aboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station uses digital photography to study Earth's natural resources by monitoring catas...

Multi-Agency Satellite Begins Climate and Weather Studies

Mar 14, 2012 (SPX)

NASA has completed commissioning of the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP), which is now making global environmental observations. The sa...

TerraSAR-X brings lively winter view into focus

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

Ice and snow can be colourful - at least when seen through the 'eyes' of the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) TerraSA...

NASA Researchers on the Snow Patrol

Mar 06, 2012 (SPX)

The sky is gray. It's cold. Three forecast models predicted snow. It's 9:20 pm. Gail Skofronick-Jackson looks out the window of the operations trailer where she...

SOA gains control of China's oceanic surveying satellite

Mar 06, 2012 (XNA)

Control of China's oceanic surveying satellite Haiyang-2 was handed over Friday to the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), by its manufacturer and launcher Chin...

Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Program Examined

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

Collecting environmental information about the present and future of home planet Earth is of critical importance. Space-based systems can help to appreciate how...

Sciamachy - 10 years monitoring climate in space

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

How has our ozone layer changed in the last 10 years? How do trace gases like nitrous oxides, carbon dioxide and methane influence our climate? How do environme...

GPM Microwave Imager Instrument for NASA and JAXA Mission Arrives at Goddard

Mar 02, 2012 (SPX)

The Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) instrument has arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for integration into ...

Watching the planet breathe

Mar 02, 2012 (JPL)

Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth's plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters [1], rese...