NASA Earth Observatory: What’s New Week of 4 December 2007

In the News:

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

* Latest Images:

• Locusts in Kenya
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17851
• Storm Lays Down Snow and Ice Across Midwest
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17850
• Marsh Island, Louisiana
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17849
• Typhoons Mitag and Hagibis Drench the Philippines
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17848
• Rock Glacier on Sourdough Peak, Alaska
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17847
• Melting Anomalies on Greenland in 2007
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17846
• Double Cyclones Strike Philippines
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17845
• Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica
  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17844

* Media Alerts

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

• Accuracy of Past Hurricane Counts Good
• Dunes, Climate Models Don’t Match Up With Paleomagnetic Records
• 2002 Alaskan Quake Left 7 Areas of California Stirred but not Shaken
• Rising Tides Intensify Non-Volcanic Tremor in Earth’s Crust
• Storm Surge Models Help Bangladesh Save Lives
• Giant Submarine Landslide Identified
• Don’t Judge a Brook By its Color – Brown Waters Are More Natural

* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:

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

• Scientists Call for Global Ocean Checkup
• Winter Forecast a Mild One as Temperatures Get Toastier
• Better Ocean Monitoring ‘Vital’
• Extreme Tides at Coast Prompt Warnings
• Carbon Dioxide at Record High, Stoking Warming
• Southern Ocean Warming Faster Than Others
• Undersea Slide Set Off Giant Flow
• Tidal Link to Earthquakes Revealed at Last
• Analysis: IPCC Issues Dire Climate Change Warning