The latest from NASA’s Earth Observatory 15 May 2007

In the News:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/

* Latest Images:

Ireland
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17646

Bugaboo Fire Rages in Georgia and Florida
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17645

Glacial Retreat
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17644

Salt Ponds, Botswana
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17643

Four Centuries at Jamestown, Virginia
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17642

Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Volcanoes
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17641

Subtropical Storm Andrea
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17640

Rain in the U.S. Midwest
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17639

* NASA News
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/

• NASA’s Close-Up Look at a Hurricane’s Eye Reveals a New ‘Fuel’ Source
• Space Station Provides New ‘Window’ for International Polar Year
• NASA Study Suggests Extreme Summer Warming in the Future

* Media Alerts
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/

• Deforestation Plays Critical Climate Change Role
• Climate Swings Have Brought Great Carbon Dioxide Pulses Up From the Deep Sea
• Real-Time Seismic Monitoring Station Installed Atop Active Underwater Volcano
• Remnants of Ice Age Linger in Gravity
• ‘Short-Circuit’ Found in Ocean Circulation
• Understanding the Global Carbon Budget
• Transcontinental Wildfire Emissions Monitored from Space
• Scientists: As Rainfall Changes, Tropical Plants May Acclimate
• Healthy Reefs Hit Hardest by Warmer Temperatures

* Headlines from the press, radio, and television:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Headlines/

• Strong Wind to Complicate Wildfire Fight
• Forecasters Call for New Hurricane Classification
• Warming World Threatens Migratory Birds
• Lab Twisters Could Reveal Tornado Secrets
• Philippine Volcano Showers 11 Villages
• Scientists Monitor Undersea Volcano
• Rains Aid Europe’s Crop Amid Climate Swings
• Mystery Source of Urban Pollution Revealed
• Fog, Lower Temperatures Take Bite Out of California Wildfires
• NASA Study: Eastern U.S. to Get Hotter
• China Warns Over Climate Change
• Weird Gravity in Canada Blamed on Hefty Glaciers
• Subtropical Storm Forms Off the Southeast Coast
• 2007 Could Be a Busy Hurricane Season
• Midwest Flooding Could Near 1993 Levels
• Study Ties Coral Disease to Warmer Oceans
• Plants Don’t Produce Greenhouse Gas, New Study Finds

* New Research Highlights
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/Research/