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Where Will The Next Food Crisis StrikeRome, Italy (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 The European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the American Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) are working to innovate and reinforce their food security monitoring systems and to develop more efficient early warning tools. These efforts come as a response to the 2007-2008 global food crisis that increased significantly the number of countries under threat of famine. Satellite observation is the key instrument ... read more |
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Cairo (AFP) Feb 26, 2010Four people were killed and more than 50 hurt as bad weather wreaked havoc across Egypt, pelting the capital with a freak hail storm and smashing a luxury liner into a pier, officials and media said Friday. In the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, waves as high as a two-storey building pounded the coast, media reports said. Thursday evening's hail storm in Cairo, the first in ma ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2010Over the last decade, NASA has launched a series of satellites to monitor the health of our planet. One such satellite - the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) - has provided a sustained, big-picture look at ice thickness at Earth's polar regions. Now, after seven years in orbit and 15 laser-operation campaigns, ICESat has stopped collecting science data. The last of three la ... more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2010The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES)-P represents a continuation of the newest generation of environmental satellites built by Boeing for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the technical guidance and project management of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. GOES satellites provide the familiar weather pictures seen on Uni ... more |
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Shedding Light On Science Of Warming WorldPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2010 Will 2010 be the warmest year on record? How do the recent U.S. "Snowmageddon" winter storms and record low temperatures in Europe fit into the bigger picture of long-term global warming? NASA has launched a new Web page to help people better understand the causes and effects of Earth's changing climate. The new "A Warming World" page hosts a series of new articles, videos, data visualizations, space-based imagery and interactive visuals that provide unique NASA perspectives on this topic of globa ... read more |
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