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Wednesday, July 26th, 2023

Canada’s renowned Marine Institute joins global endeavour to map entire ocean floor

London – The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project has announced a new partnership with the Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Fisheries and Marine Institute – a leading centre of excellence for marine research and education. Seabed 2030 is a collaborative project between The Nippon Foundation and GEBCO to inspire the complete mapping of the world’s ocean

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

XAG Suggests Drones Could Outsmart Locust Swarms at Night

GUANGZHOU, China – The UN warned last week that East Africa remains under the threat of desert locust invasions, due to the prevailing favourable breeding conditions which enable new swarms to form and increase. As African countries are getting prepared for the imminent locust crisis, the smart agtech company XAG has proposed that agricultural drones, through more targeted

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

Earth Day 2020 Brings Together an Unprecedented Collection of Voices

Washington, D.C. — With the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day (April 22) fast approaching, now more than ever we need to connect as a global community united in our fight to protect the health and welfare of the planet and its people. In support of this global movement, illustrious and preeminent religious leaders, environmental advocates, celebrities, musicians

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

“Flattening the Curve” Analysis Added to U.S. Spread of COVID-19 Map

St. Paul, Minnesota – This afternoon, Minnesota based nonprofit SharedGeo updated its online COVID-19 information map by adding two new features. In addition to the time lapse view of the virus spread across the United States by county since early March, now available is a national map and by state graphs showing progress toward “flattening

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

Mississippi and Missouri Rivers are Badly Swollen

At least 200 gauges along the waterways of the Central United States—especially the Missouri and Mississippi river basins—reported some level of flooding on March 23, 2019. Thirty-six stations reported major flooding, and another 79 reported moderate floods. Historically high water levels could be a factor in the region for weeks, according to government forecasts. The

Tuesday, March 5th, 2019

Thawing Permafrost Peatlands May Add to Atmospheric CO2 Burden

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as in the rest of the world, causing permafrost soils to thaw. Permafrost peatlands are biogeochemical hot spots in the Arctic as they store vast amounts of carbon. Permafrost thaw could release part of these long-term immobile carbon stocks as the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO2)

Tuesday, November 20th, 2018

California Fires Spew Aerosols Into Already Saturated Sky

Although most people might think smoke rises and then clears after a fire has been extinguished, the opposite is actually true. New research using data collected during NASA airborne science campaigns shows how smoke from wildfires worldwide could impact the atmosphere and climate much more than previously thought. The study, led by researchers at the

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

Ozone Hole Modest Despite Optimum Conditions for Ozone Depletion

The ozone hole that forms over the Antarctic each September is primarily driven by two factors: the amount of ozone-destroying chlorine in the polar stratosphere and the availability of ice crystals in stratospheric clouds for the chlorine to bind to. This year, the super-cold stratospheric temperatures measured by NOAA and NASA meant conditions were ripe

Tuesday, October 9th, 2018

Satellite Spies Mediterranean Slick

On Oct. 7, 2018, a Tunisian cargo ship is reported to have struck the hull of a Cypriot container ship in waters north of the French island of Corsica. There were no casualties, but the collision caused a fuel leak that resulted in an oil slick about 20 kilometers long. Although the collision occurred in

Tuesday, June 5th, 2018

NASA Soil Moisture Data Advances Global Crop Forecasts

Data from the first NASA satellite mission dedicated to measuring the water content of soils is now being used operationally by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to monitor global croplands and make commodity forecasts. The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission launched in 2015 and has helped map the amount of water in soils worldwide.

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