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Your source for monitoring regional and global changes on our planet through images and stories.
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Coal Ash Spill, Tennessee
In the early morning hours of December 22, 2008, the earthen wall of a containment pond at Tennessee?s Kingston Fossil Plant gave way. The breach released 1.3 million cubic meters (1.7 cubic yards) of sludge, infiltrating a nearby river and damaging dozens of homes.
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Coal Ash Spill, Tennessee
In the early morning hours of December 22, 2008, the earthen wall of a containment pond at Tennessee?s Kingston Fossil Plant gave way. The breach released 1.3 million cubic meters (1.7 cubic yards) of sludge, infiltrating a nearby river and damaging dozens of homes.
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Plume from Soufriere Hills Volcano
Activity continued on the Soufriere Hills Volcano through the end of 2008, including pyroclastic flows and ash plumes.
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Fires in Central Africa
Fires burned from Nigeria through the Central African Republic in late December 2008.
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Plume from Koryaksky Volcano
Koryaksky (or Koryakski) Volcano on Russia?s Kamchatka Peninsula released a plume of ash and/or steam in late December 2008.
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SABER Reveals the Upper Atmosphere's "Breathing" Pattern, In Rhythm with the Sun
A NASA satellite has observed for the first time a "breathing" of the Earth's upper atmosphere in response to periodic, high-speed solar winds.
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Space Has Never Been Closer: NASA Instruments Document Contraction of the Boundary between...
Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes.
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