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Climate Change Has Shifted the Locations of Earth's North and South Poles

2013-06-28 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature: Global warming is changing the location of Earth's geographic poles, according to a new study in Geophysical Research Letters. Researchers at the University of Texas, Austin, report that increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet -- and to a lesser degree, ice loss in other parts of the globe -- helped to shift the North Pole several centimeters east each year since 2005. "There was a big change,' says lead author Jianli Chen, a geophysicist. From 1982 to 2005, the pole drifted southeast...

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Reflected light maps Earth's vegetation

2013-06-21 22:04:07| CNET News.com

Using data collected by the VIIRS sensor aboard the Suomi NPP satellite, NOAA has created a map of the world's vegetation. [Read more]

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Cool time-lapse imagery of the earth's climate changing over 30 years

2013-05-13 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

AMERICAblog: Using satellite photos from Landsat, a joint mission between the USGS and NASA, Google has partnered with Carnegie Mellon University to put together a very cool series of time-lapse images of the earth, showing changes in the earth, including impacts of climate change. Some of the specific time-lapse images, below, show the Columbia Glacier retreating, urban growth in Las Vegas, the expansion of the Dubai coastline, the deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon. It`s pretty cool stuff. Here are...

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Time-lapse images let you witness 28 years of Earth's changes

2013-05-09 22:45:40| CNET News.com

Google, NASA, and others show off dramatic time-lapse images that give a visual tour of how the Earth has evolved (and devolved) over the course of almost three decades. [Read more]

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