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image: NASA NASA‘s just released some pretty dramatic satellite photos of the north branch of Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier from July 6 and 7–when an area of ice 2.7 square miles in size ( more than twice the size of New York City’s Central Park), where the glacier meets the ocean, broke up overnight and the [...]

Image credit NASA via Our Amazing Planet All eyes were on Soccer City yesterday as the World Cup played out. However, few eyes were seeing it from above, which is the perspective that reveals the neighboring mountains of waste from gold mines. While Soccer City can hold 97,400 people — a sizable stadium by any [...]

Image via NASA With what looks a bit more like a giant lawn dart than an airplane, NASA has a vision for a quieter, more environmentally friendly future for supersonic air travel. Called the Supersonic Green Machine, the airplane was designed by Lockheed Martin to correct a few of the problems that limited its faster-than-sound [...]

Photo Credit: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Patrick Kelley NASA researchers are getting ready for a voyage to the Arctic to study how climate change is impacting the ecosystems and chemistry of icy north. The 5-week long mission, appropriately named Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment (ICESCAPE) [...]

NASA is shopping around for design ideas for the next generation of greener commercial aircraft as part of a U.S. government air traffic modernization effort. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

Image: NASA, public domain. It already has been a few weeks since scientists have detected large underwater oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico, but BP is still denying that they even exist. Maybe they’re saying that in good faith and truly haven’t found them, but let’s also remember that they have an incentive to [...]

Photo: NASA, public domain. That Can’t Be Good Photos taken by NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite satellite on May 17th and released today show that the BP oil spill has a massive ‘arm’ that is spreading out in the Southeast direction. Is it caught in the Gulf of Mexico’s Loop [...]

Recreational boaters, like motorists, need to know  how much fuel is in the tank. Unlike motorists, they also need to know if water has seeped into their gasoline. Conventional fuel gauges pose a problem in that 1) they’re electrical, which means there’s a chance they’ll ignite the fuel, leading to disaster on the water and [...]

Click here to view this image large. All images: NASA. What you’re looking at above is a photo taken by NASA of the oil slick created by the explosion and sinking of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that happened last week. So far, an estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day are [...]

photo: NASA (click to see large) Polly Higgins has been getting more press pushing for ‘Ecocide‘ to be enshrined as an international crime, and now a new photo from NASA really shows what Higgins is talking about: The wholesale destruction of Semirara Island in the Philippines by the Panian Coalfield….Read the full story on TreeHugger