August 10, 2013 – NASA Research is showing due to the increase in the earth’s temperature, we can expect to see more wildfires, and fires in areas that normally don’t see fires. NASA scientists talked to The Weather Channel about the latest research.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/index.html
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By James Hansen: As I peer through Beijing’s impenetrable smog I feel nauseous. I have long been troubled by the injustice of human - made climate change to our children and grandchildren, which may soon constitute a ...
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This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decemeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow d...
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Published on Feb 9, 2014 Heat stored in the western Pacific Ocean caused by an unprecedented strengthening of the equatorial trade winds appears to be largely responsible for the hiatus in surface warming observed ov...
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The chilling weather phenomenon that hit much of the U.S. in January is explained by scientist Eric Fetzer using data from NASA's AIRS instrument.
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The groundbreaking two-hour special that reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of our planet. Produced in extensive consultation with NASA scientists, NOVA takes data from earth-observing satellites and transfo...
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By Phil Plait (Slate): It’s official: 2013 is the fourth hottest year since records started being kept in 1880. It ties with 2003 for that dubious honor. This result was just announced by the National Oceanic an...
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Pine Island Glacier 2013: Nov. 10 This MODIS image taken by NASA's Aqua satellite on Nov. 10, 2013, shows an iceberg that was part of the Pine Island Glacier and is now separating from the Antarctica continent. What ...
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Published on YouTube Sep 27, 2013 New data visualizations from the NASA Center for Climate Simulation and NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio show how climate models -- those used in the new report from the Un...
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NASA: Drought Drives Decade-Long Decline in Plant Growth published 08.19.10 by Kathryn Hansen | Source Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperat...
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BBC August 29 2013: One of the biggest canyons in the world has been found beneath the ice sheet that smothers most of Greenland The canyon - which is 800km long and up to 800m deep - was carved out by a great ...
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Published on Aug 20, 2013 A UN panel says scientists are now 95% sure human activity is behind the increase in global warming since the 1950s.
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Published on YouTube Aug 23, 2013 You've seen the great cockpit footage from Best of IceBridge Arctic '13, now go behind the scenes for 9 minutes of scientific commentary with Operation IceBridge Project Scientist Mi...
> Added by prokaryotes on August 10, 2013
> http://nasa.gov/fires
Bad link, can you fix the pointer to the original source?
Fixed. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/index.html