Find out how teachers who are stars in their classrooms can become “Top Stars” at a NASA-sponsored contest that invites U.S. formal (K-12 and college) and informal educators to submit their best examples of using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in science, technology, engineering or mathematics education.
Acquired January 4, 2010, this true-color image shows snow coating the area around Bo Hai. Beijing and Tianjin leave big gray splotches on the snowy blanket, and smaller cities appear as small gray dots.
Research conducted during 2009 shows that first responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general U.S. population.
The Whitsunday Islands are a collection of some 74 islands sandwiched between the Australian mainland and the outer atolls of the Great Barrier Reef.
Consumerism has, as Huxley feared, changed all of us – we’d rather hop to a brave new world than rein in our current spending. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at the original source).
It may be the start of a new year, but as far as cinema is concerned that doesn’t mean it can’t also be the end of the world. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at the … Read More
Sweden is launching its first wolf cull in 45 years, following a decision by parliament to control the species’ numbers.
On July 23, 1972, NASA launched the ERTS-1 – later to be named Landsat – the first of a series of satellites, which set out to offer scientists, educators, resource managers, and the general public an important ‘photo album’ of decades of Earth observations. Now, almost forty years later, Landsat continues to provide a remarkable record of observations, measuring data in wavelengths of energy ranging from the visible to the thermal portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Let Dr. Bruce Quirk of the USGS provide a glimpse of the uses, value and future of data gathered from the invaluable Landsat program.
New York City and an environmental group found high levels of pollutants in neighborhoods where buildings burn No. 4 or No. 6 oil. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine website, but is no longer reproduced here. Hope you enjoy the article at the original source).
“There is something fitting about writing my last column on the first day of a new year.”
