NASA Earth Observatory: What’s New Week of 11 March 2008

New Features:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/

* Amazon Fires on the Rise http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/AmazonFireRise/

In 2006, fires and smoke in the Amazon declined significantly for the first time in nearly a decade. Is Amazon burning under control?

In the News:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/

* Latest Images:

Smoke Over the Amazon in 2005 and 2006
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17962

Fires Rise in the Amazon
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17961

Ries Crater, Germany
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17960

Tropical Cyclone Jokwe
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17957

Cumulonimbus Cloud over Africa
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17956

Algae Bloom in Antarctic Sea Ice
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17947

Fire Damages Kenya’s Lake Nakuru National Park
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17946

Deforestation in Monarch Butterfly Reserve
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17943