NASA Earth Observatory: What’s New Week of 2 October 2007
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New Features:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/
* Can Earth’s Plants Keep up with Us?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/HANPP/ Studying human appropriation of net primary productivity helps predict the planet’s ability to sustain the human population.
In the News:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/
* Latest Images:
- Capitol Reef National Park, Utah
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17788 - Human Demands on Earth’s Plants
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17787 - Oblique View of Dinosaur National Monument
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17786 - Fall Color Around Lake Superior
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17785 - Majuro and Arno Atolls
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17784 - Hundreds of Fires in Bolivia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17783 - Record Arctic Sea Ice Loss in 2007
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17782 - Seasonal Rain Floods Africa’s Sahel
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17781
* NASA News
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/
- NASA Examines Arctic Sea Ice Changes Leading to Record Low in 2007
- NASA Research Indicates Oxygen on Earth 2.5 Billion Years Ago
- ‘Remarkable’ Drop in Arctic Sea Ice Raises Questions
* Media Alerts
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/
- Acid Rain Recovery ‘Slower Than Expected’
- Carbon Dioxide Did Not End the Last Ice Age
- Discovery Challenges Timeline of Oxygen on Earth
- Environmental Changes Preceded First Great Rise in Atmospheric Oxygen
- Antarctic Plant and Animal Life Survived Ice Ages
- Life-Giving Rocks From Deep Earth
- Cave Records Provide Clues to Climate Change
- Impact of Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Researchers
* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/
- Huge Stockpile of Oxygen Found Deep Inside Earth
- Oxygen on Earth May Be Older Than Thought
- In Hot Water: Ice Age Defrosted by Warming Ocean, Not Rise in CO2
- Climate Change Alters Arctic Lake
- Massive Underwater Forests Found in Pacific
- Earth’s Water Brewed At Home, Not in Space
