A new modeling approach using satellite data will likely to enhance our ability to develop cholera risk maps in several regions of the globe. The model (GCRM) is based on monthly air temperature, precipitation, availability...

On its second worldwide tour, the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) team starts by surveying the north's polar regions during winter, which is marked by a build-up of pollution from the United States, Canada, northern China, and...

The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission shows the rainfall distribution for two major storms churning in the Atlantic and Caribbean basins. The visualization shows Hurricane Jose as it continues to slowly move...

Summer intern Jorel Torres, a graduate student from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, talks about snow research and the value of hard work, persistence, and passion.<b<b<b<br/>r/>r/>r/>

The GOES-R series, NOAA's next-generation geostationary weather satellites, is a game changer. These satellites will provide continuous imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth’s Western Hemisphere, total lightning...

NASA scientists are investigating key questions about hurricanes in a new mission from the skies. This August, the East Pacific Origins and Characteristics of Hurricanes, or EPOCH, mission will fly over East Pacific...

The hole in Earth’s ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September grew to about 8.9 million square miles in 2016 before starting to recover, according to scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

This year’s wildfire season is off to a blazing start. The United States had an early start to the season, with more than 29,000 wildfires burning more than 2.6 million acres of land. The driest season in 14 years has...

NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) sits onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite at the Lagrange point 1, a million miles away from Earth.



EPIC has been imaging the sunlit...

Although it was only designed to last three months, the tiny CubeSat known as IceCube has been orbiting Earth for a full year, collecting data on a hard-to-study type of cloud.
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In that time, IceCube has created a global...

The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...

1. Various of radar images of Titan's "cat"

The Cassini spacecraft has been sending back evidence that Saturn's planet-size moon Titan is geologically alive, possibly with liquids moving on its surface, scientists said...

HEADLINE: Raw Video: Close-up pictures of the sun

CAPTION: NASA has unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they're already learning new things. (Apri
l...

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New images of the surface of Mars have been released from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor which is in orbit round the so-called Red Pl
anet.
Scientists are excited about the pictures which will help them to...

BEER IS THE MOST POPULAR ALCOHOLIC DRINK IN THE WORLD.

LEADIN:Scientists say cattle and sheep farmers can begin to control their massive contribution to greenhouse gases and global warming by feeding their animals more high value, nutritious plants.The claims are made in a new report which...

1. Exterior of Swedish Academy

2. Sign reading: "Note! Academy members only beyond this
door"
3. Academy committee members entering th
rough door
4. C
utaway of media
5. Committee...

1. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) animation of the New Horizons spacecraft on its mission to Pluto

2. Wide shot of news conference UPSOUND (English) reporter's question: "If New Horizons is the first...

Man-made chlorines are chiefly responsible for eating away at the

earth's protective layer of ozone over the South Pole, acco
rding
to new evidence released on Monday (19/12) by NASA...

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Researchers in the United States say the hole in the Ozone layer - which protects the earth from harmful cosmic rays - may start closing within 10 y
ears.
A new study says the amount...

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American scientists say an ozone hole over Antarctica the size of North America is due to man-made ca
uses.
They say new data from a U-S science satellite confirms that high levels of man-made...

1. Exterior of building, venue of Climate Change Convention

2. People in the
hall
3. Various of journalists ahead of news c
onference
4. Various close-up shots of pag
es of report ...

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NASA has launched a satellite that will map and study the Earth's ozone layer for at least two y
ears.
The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer-Earth Probe -- known as TOMS -- vaulted into space...

AP Television

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venue
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arriving
3. Woman standing next to sign reading: (French) "Con
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