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Monitoring Earth’s forests from space with Curtis Woodcock
Images from the Landsat series of satellites tell a story of how Earth's forests have changed. Learn more about monitoring Earth's forests from space.
October 25, 2010
Greenland’s melting glaciers with Jay Zwally
NASA glaciologist Jay Zwally talked to EarthSky about melting in a large glacier at the western edge of Greenland. Read more on Greenland's melting glaciers.
October 18, 2010
Coral bleaching in 2010 was a bad year
Scientists say high ocean temperatures in 2010 caused coral bleaching around the world – especially in the central Pacific, Indian Ocean and Caribbean.
October 18, 2010
Is Antarctica warming or cooling?
Antarctica is the only one of Earth's major continents that hasn't shown a consistent and clear picture of warming in recent years. One reason might be that data from Antarctica is sparse.
October 4, 2010
Census of Marine Life is now complete
The Census of Marine Life - a count of the organisms living in Earth's oceans - drew to a close in early October 2010. Read more about it here.
October 4, 2010
Trouble for walruses in warming world
In the early fall 2010, over 10,000 walruses were spotted on the Northern coast of Alaska. Fischbach attributes their presence onshore to the Arctic’s melting sea ice.
October 4, 2010
Amazon rainforest has different amounts of carbon
From above, the treetops in the Amazon rainforest might look remarkably uniform. But different regions of the rainforest might store very different amounts of carbon.
September 27, 2010
Gulf oil spill long-term impact on wildlife
It might be 10 years before we know the impact on wildlife of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Sensitive coastal marshes especially.
September 20, 2010
First-ever map of height of all the world’s trees
Dr. Lefsky said that taller the trees in a forest, the more carbon is stored in that forest. This map will help scientists figure out what places in the world are holding onto a lot of carbon.
September 13, 2010
Geoengineering to combat climate change
Climate scientists are 98% in agreement on human-caused global warming. Now some scientists are discussing geoengineering to deliberately cool Earth.
September 13, 2010
