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Huge Waves That Hit Reunion Island Tracked From Space
May 16, 2007 The origin and movement of waves reaching up to 11 meters that devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean on Saturday evening have been detected with ESA's Envisat ... > full story -
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 10 Times Higher In New Orleans Than In The General Public
May 16, 2007 Hurricane Katrina was the most significant natural disaster to strike the United States. Thousands of people were exposed to destruction, human violence and desperate circumstances. Post-Traumatic ... > full story -
Eye Of The Hurricane Reveals A New Power Source
May 14, 2007 In the eye of a furious hurricane, the weather is often quite calm and sunny. But new NASA research is providing clues about how the seemingly subtle movement of air within and around this region ... > full story -
Pluto-Bound New Horizons Provides New Look At Jupiter System
May 1, 2007 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system -- stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and ... > full story -
Hurricane Katrina And 2004 Tsunami Caused Surprisingly Similar Destruction
April 11, 2007 Two of the world's worst natural disasters in recent years stemmed from different causes on opposite sides of the globe, but actually had much in common, according to researchers studying both the ... > full story -
Very Active 2007 Hurricane Season Predicted
April 3, 2007 The U.S. Atlantic basin will likely experience a very active hurricane season, the Colorado State University forecast team announced today, increasing its earlier prediction for the 2007 hurricane ... > full story -
New Analysis: Should Improve Hurricane And Storm Surge Modeling
March 28, 2007 Scientists have directly derived the air-sea momentum exchange at the ocean interface using observed ocean currents under Hurricane Ivan and determined that it decreases when winds exceed 32 meters ... > full story -
Did Dust Bust The 2006 Hurricane Season Forecasts?
March 28, 2007 A recent NASA study suggests that tiny dust particles may have foiled forecasts that the 2006 hurricane season would be another active ... > full story -
Prehistoric Hurricane Activity Uncovered
March 20, 2007 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita focused the international spotlight on the vulnerability of the US coastline. Fears that a "super-hurricane" could make a direct hit on a major city and cause even more ... > full story -
Global December-February Temperature Warmest On Record
March 16, 2007 NOAA reports that February's combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the sixth warmest on record, but a strong El Nino in January helped push the winter to its highest value since ... > full story
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