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Hole Punch Clouds Over West VirginiaWashington DC (SPX) Dec 29, 2010 Looking up on a chilly December morning in 2009, residents of rural West Virginia (southwest of Charleston) would have seen a halo of light bursting through the thin bank of clouds that hung overhead. The light was streaming through hole-punch clouds and canals, most likely created by passing airplanes. This image, taken by the Landsat-5 satellite on December 11, 2009, shows the unique conditions in which such holes form. When airplanes, particularly propeller aircraft, pass through the clou ... read more |
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 GOES-13 Satellite Captures Powerful Snowmaker Leaving New England Snows are finally winding down in New England as a powerful low pressure system brought blizzard conditions from northern New Jersey to Maine over Christmas weekend. The GOES-13 satellite captured a ... more | .. |
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 Something fishy holds hope for Angola tourism Post-war Angola may not stand out as a top African tourist destination but adventure anglers fishing for the giant tarpon look set to put the country back on the visitors map. ... more | .. |
Chateau Lafite, thanks to a lucky 8, takes off in China When Chateau Lafite chief executive Christophe Salin set a modest price for the 2008 vintage in April 2009, the financial world was melting down. ... more | .. |
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France rediscovers its forgotten wines Bernard Plageoles' eyes flash with anger as he describes a largely futile 30-year struggle to dissuade fellow vintners from ripping up the now rare grape varietals that once defined this historic wine region. ... more | .. |
Honeybee virus may threaten wild cousins Eleven species of wild pollinators in the United States have turned up carrying some of the viruses known to menace domestic honeybees, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 GE to pay 500 mln dollars for New York river cleanup General Electric said Thursday it will soon complete a 500-million-dollar toxic waste cleanup project in New York's Hudson river to settle a decades-old battle with US environmental authorities. ... more | .. |
 Price rises highlight China food supply challenges: UN envoy Recent food price surges in China have underscored the supply challenges the country faces, as decreasing arable land is making it harder to maintain farm output, a UN envoy said Thursday. ... more |
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 TanDEM-X Ready For Routine Operations In 2011 On 14 December 2010, TanDEM-X passed another important milestone: the radar mission's test phase has concluded in less than six months according to plan, paving the way for routine operations - the ... more | .. |
 ESA Unveils Latest Map Of World's Land Cover ESA's 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the 'GlobCover' website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can ... more | .. |
 Waterways Contribute To Growth Of Potent Greenhouse Gas Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, has increased by more than 20 percent over the last century, and nitrogen in waterways is fueling part of that growth, according to a Michigan State Universit ... more | .. |
 Recreating Colonial Hydrology Hydrologists may have a new way to study historical water conditions. By synthesizing present-day data with historical records they may be able to recreate broad hydrologic trends on a regional basi ... more |
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New Zealand blocks Hong Kong firm's farm bid New Zealand on Wednesday blocked a Hong Kong firm's bid to buy a bankrupt dairy farm group in a proposal which sparked heated debate about foreign land ownership. ... more | .. |
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 Bioethics Commission Calls For Enhanced Federal oversight In Field of Synthetic Biology The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released its first report-a wide-ranging review of the emerging field of synthetic biology - issuing 18 recommendations including a ... more |
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