The latest from NASA’s Earth Observatory 8 May 2007

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

* Latest Images:

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

Nyiragongo Vents Steam http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17638

November 2006 Smog Event, U.S. Northeast http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17637

Reykjavik, Iceland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17636

Sweat Farm Road Fire in Georgia http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17635

North Aral Sea Recovery http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17634

Drought Shrinks Australia’s Lake Eucumbene http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17632

Drought in Southwestern United States http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17631

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

• – Widespread ‘Twilight Zone’ Detected Around Clouds

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

• Climate Change Impacts Stream Life
• Drought Limits Tropical Plant Distributions, Scientists at the Smithsonian

Report

• Climate Change a Threat to Indonesian Agriculture, Study Says
• Public Health and Hurricanes
• Air-Sea Surface Science
• Seeing the Trees for the Forest

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

• Famous Caymans Coral Reefs Dying, Scientists Say
• Snowball Fight Erupts Over Frozen Earth Theory
• Quake Hits Fiji
• Thousands Homeless After Flooding in Sri Lankan Capital
• Deal Reached on Climate Change Report
• Tornado Destroys Kansas Town, Kills Nine
• Wind Farms Urged to Go Easy on Birds and Bats
• Deep Tremors May Help Predict Quakes
• Damage from Hurricanes and Tsunamis Look Strangely Alike
• Feeling Warmth, Subtropical Plants Move North
• U.S. Environmental Satellites in Jeopardy, Scientists Say
• Scientists: Prehistoric Volcanoes Heated Earth
• Bangkok Faces Flooded Future, Expert Says
• Research Needed on Impact of Global Warming on Ecosystems
• U.S. Air Pollution: Less Smog, But More Soot in East
• Geologists Study Beneath Mount Baker
• California Snowpack Supply Lowest in 20 Years