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Asian emissions contribute to air pollution in western United States: study

As Asian countries develop, they are emitting more ozone precursors that pollute surface level air. Many studies have documented this pollution being carried by air currents to the western United States. To learn more about ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Carbon storage in tropical vegetation: New map to help developing nations track deforestation, report on emissions

A study published in Nature Climate Change today finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a combination of remote sensing and field data, scient ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism

As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

NASA satellite confirms sharp decline in pollution from US coal power plants

A team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the levels of a key air pollutant generated by coal power plants in the eastern ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Duo of big telescopes probes the depths of binary star formation

A team of researchers from four Japanese universities (Kobe, Saitama, Osaka, and Tokyo) has been able to delineate the intricate structure of the circumbinary disk that surrounds a young binary star system ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Obama lays out new US space policy

President Barack Obama on Monday laid out an overarching new US policy on outer space, calling for more international and private sector cooperation on exploration, climate change and orbiting debris.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4