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The Clearest 5 Minute Lesson on Arctic Ice Melt You'll Ever Get
Information about the melting of Arctic ice can be overwhelming, especially when trying to grasp everything from how it is measured to the impacts of ice-free summers in the Arctic to predictions about future ice melts. We
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NASA Uses Lotus Leaf As Inspiration for Space Gear Dust-Repellent
NASA is taking a hint from biomimicry and looking at lotus leaves for inspiration for a special coating that will prevent particles from sticking to surfaces of spaceflight equipment. The many tiny spikes covering the
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Technology on International Space Station Will Map Out Earth's Coastlines
When it comes to mapping out Earth's coastlines and getting a detailed record of them globally, what better spot to set up shop than 225 miles overhead? The Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) - new
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Darryl Hannah & NASA Scientist James Hansen Arrested
Yesterday afternoon Darryl Hannah, NASA Scientist James Hansen and former Congressman Ken Hechler were among 30 people arrested protesting mountaintop removal for coal mining in the West Virginia town of
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Future Climate Changes Revealed By Staring at the Sun
Image via: Getty Images National Geographic reports that noticeable changes in climate may be explained by "staring" at the sun, as the latest lull in solar flares has some scientists worried that this might be the next "Little Ice Age." And by "little"
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NASA Releases Simulation of Arctic Sea Ice Changes
We mentioned earlier today that NASA has new data showing the Arctic sea ice is thinner as well as there is simply less of it. Posted today on YouTube is a simulation from NASA on Arctic sea ice changes. The 2009 Arctic sea ice maximum extent (the
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Researchers Have Found a New Greenhouse Gas Nearly 5,000-Times Worse than CO2
Global Atmosphere Watch Station, Photo via: Robstephaustralia First, the Bad news It seems like the world just keeps coming up with more bad news and no matter how hard we try, there are always new bad things popping up. A team of international
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Global Warming Tracking Satellite Crash May Set Global Warming Research Back Several Years!
The Taurus XL crashed last Tuesday, postponing a 9-year, $280 million project which would have allowed Colorado State University (CSU) researchers to track carbon dioxide emissions and global warming over the course of the next
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NASA's First CO2-Monitoring Satellite Crashes Into the Sea
What NASA's OCO Satellite would have looked like had it reached orbit. Image: NASA Sad Day for Climate Science Knowledge is power. The more we know about a problem, the better we can act to solve it. That's why today is a sad day. From the Times Online:
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NASA Kepler Mission: The Question of How Alone We Really Are is About to be Answered
We talk a lot about Mother Earth here on Treehugger, but we don't often travel outside of our own planet to discuss a few of the other possible earth-type planets. It has been estimated that out of the billions of possible
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Weather Satellite Used to Track Whales and Birds
The NOAA-N Prime, the newest US weather satellite, has some interesting uses beyond just watching clouds pass across the sky. It also can use transmitters to collect sensor
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Journalist Kayaks Texas Coast to Highlight Environmental Volatility
If you've ever wanted to explore a volatile ecosystem, to discover the ways humans are
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Turkish Government Says 'Evet' (Yes) to Nuclear Bid
Environmentalists gloated a bit after Turkey received only one bid to build a nuclear reactor
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NASA Satellites Help Track Natural Oil Slicks as Potential GHG Sources
It may seem unusually high, but almost half of the oil that makes its way into the ocean derives from natural sources. To find these oil slicks, scientists have long made use of satellite radar instruments. Upon reaching the surface,
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Bella Gaia: A Personal Connection With Our Planet
Kenji Williams is in Tokyo this week with his amazing Bella Gaia presentation. This video is from the digital planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, filmed using HD cameras and fisheye lenses. Kenji Williams on the violin with KaChun
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Tree Drawings are Natural
We've had artists listening to the sound that trees make, and we have had lots of artists drawing trees but now we have the trees doing the drawing--sort of. Tim Knowles creates pictures by attaching pens to the ends of branches and letting the wind
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Pop Quiz : Space Age Air Cleaning
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are harmful to human health, and are released from a variety of household
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Shocking Space Debris Images
The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ, German only) today published an article on space junk. The shocking image is an eye opener. Humankind continues to repeat the mistake of strewing waste into common spaces (no pun intended)
