From NASA Earth Observatory:
Browse the topics found on the right hand side to get a better view of the world we live on. As it is today
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Historic Heat in North America Turns Winter to Summer
The intensity and scope of the heat wave is clearly visible in this map of land surface temperature anomalies.
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Bering Sea Teeming with Ice
For most of the winter of 2011–2012, the Bering Sea has been choking with sea ice. Though ice obviously forms there every year, the cover has been unusually extensive this season. In fact, the past several months have included the second highest ice extent in the satellite record for the Bering Sea region, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).
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Oldest Arctic Sea Ice is Disappearing
A new study by NASA scientist Joey Comiso has found that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the ice cap
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Dust Storm in Southwest Asia
Dust storms have been raging across southwestern Asia and the Middle East in mid-March 2012. Intense dust events spanned thousands of kilometers
several meteorologists characterized the dust activity as a “super sandstorm.”
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