The amount of snow falling on Greenland's glaciers may have been less than the water lost through icebergs calving and melting since at least the mid-1980s, a study of almost 40 years of satellite images has revealed.
Earth Sciences
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Frank Paul, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, has created animations from satellite images of the Karakoram mountain range in Asia to show how its glaciers flow and change. The images of four different ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2015
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Researchers at Duke University have developed a method that uses machine learning, satellite imagery and weather data to autonomously find hotspots of heavy air pollution, city block by city block.
Earth Sciences
Apr 15, 2021
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured visible and infrared data on Tropical Cyclone Bavi as it moved in a westward motion through the Philippine Sea.
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2015
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image as Tropical Depression Melor formed in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean close to the island of Yap.
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2015
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Even though the sun does not shine in Antarctica in winter, in some places, snow on the glaciers can melt as a result of warm wind. Utrecht glacier researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke discovered that fact by combining the results ...
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2018
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Last month's eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano in Indonesia and the deadly tsunami that followed caused two University of Rhode Island scientists to spring to action.
Earth Sciences
Jan 2, 2019
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In their 2019 AI Impact Challenge, Google asked nonprofits, social enterprises and research institutions around the world, "How would you use artificial intelligence (AI) for social good?"
Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2020
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Detailed maps of the world's natural landscapes could help scientists to better predict the impacts of future climate change.
Environment
Feb 2, 2016
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Japan's space agency is considering an unmanned mission to the moon by 2018 or early 2019, part of an effort to beef up aerospace technology and keep pace with China and other emerging powers.
Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2015
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