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European Space Agency 2019 Preview
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ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will return to the International Space Station, in Science Cheops will look at exoplanets, while the EDRS-C satellite will start the era of super-fast data relay on orbit.
2023 Was the Hottest Year on Record
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2023 was Earth’s warmest year since 1880, and the last 10 consecutive years have been the warmest 10 on record. But why does NASA, a space agency, look at Earth’s temperature? And how do we even measure global tempera...
Melting Ice and Rising Seas
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As the planet warms and glaciers and polar ice caps melt, the icy world is fast disappearing, says Julian Dowdeswell from the University of Cambridge. He asks how do we deal with rising sea levels and a changing Arctic?
Indicators for sustainable cities — how do you score?
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By 2050, 70% of people will live in cities... are you ready? City indicators help city managers, politicians, researchers and other professionals to focus on what's important and put in place policies for more livable, tolerant, sustainable, economically attractive and prosperous cities.
Where Is the Edge of the Solar System?
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Where does the solar system end? It all depends on the criteria you are using.
Reshuffling Heat on a Warming Planet
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Earth's oceans could be concealing a mystery about climate change. Researchers have recently found evidence of hidden heat hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface.
Tracking Carbon from Wildfires to Ocean Blooms
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Between September 2019 and March 2020, wildfires killed billions of animals and decimated more than 200 thousand square kilometers of Australian forest, an area larger than Nebraska. Later, thousands of kilometers awa...
Global Mountain Explorer Video Tutorial
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This video contains a narrated introduction to the Global Mountain Explorer (GME), a web-based tool for visualizing and exploring three well known global mountain data layers.
NASA: 2017 Takes Second Place for Hottest Year
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Earth's surface temperatures in 2017 were the second warmest since since 1880, when global estimates first become feasible, NASA scientists found. Global temperatures 2017 were second only to 2016, which still holds t...
Earth from Space: Lesotho
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space program, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho, a small, land-locked country surrounded entirely by South Africa. Credit: ESA - European S...
