Based on the first ten months of this year, 2011 is on track to become the tenth warmest year since record keeping began in 1850 — and the warmest ever during a cooling, La Niña event — according to yesterday’s Provisional Statement on the Status of the Global Climate from the...
Nov
30
This video collection displays the impact of Hurricane Irene, the first major hurricane of the 2011 season.
Sep
01
The GOES-13 animation above, from Aug. 19, 2011, through Aug. 22, 2011, (1545 UTC/11: 45 a.m. EDT) shows the progression of Tropical Storm Harvey through the western Caribbean Sea and to the east, the birth of Hurricane Irene on Aug. 20.
Over the weekend, Harvey made landfall in Belize and on...
Aug
22
Hurricane Isabel as seen from the International Space Station on September 15 2003, after being downgraded from a Category 5 to Category 4. Three days later, Isabel made landfall in North Carolina as a weakened Category 2. Damage extended inland through Pennsylvania and West Virginia, while...
Aug
22
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Jul
27
Considering that Pakistan’s economy is based upon agriculture, plant and animal research is vital to the future prosperity of the nation. After more than a decade during which declining investment crippled agricultural research in Pakistan, funding at its largest research institute increased...
Oct
14
A.A. Khan and Smriti Mallapaty
3 September 2010
High-resolution satellite image of flood damage in Nowshera, Pakistan, Aug 5, 2010.
Credit: DigitalGlobe
ISLAMABAD/KATHMANDU — A huge effort to collect and analyze data on the devastating floods wreaking havoc in northern Pakistan has been...
Sep
04
Deviations from normal sea surface temperatures (left) and sea surface heights (right) at the peak of the 2009-2010 central Pacific El Niño, as measured by NOAA polar orbiting satellites and NASA’s Jason-1 spacecraft, respectively. The warmest temperatures and highest sea levels were located...
Aug
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