#NASA sees Hurricane Laura’s nighttime landfall

“#NASA sees Hurricane Laura’s nighttime landfall” NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over Hurricane Laura soon after it made landfall in southwestern Louisiana around 2 a.m. EDT on Aug. 27 and captured this nighttime image. Laura’s cloud cover extends from Houston, Texas east to just west of New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System…

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#How climate change may reshape pine plantations

“#How climate change may reshape pine plantations” Credit: Nicholas A. Tonelli Climate change is going to change a lot of things, which might include how we manage the pine plantations that are found across much of the southern landscape – and which play an important role in the wood and paper industry. There have been…

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#Monitoring the Arctic heatwave

“#Monitoring the Arctic heatwave” This map shows the temperature of Eureka in the Canadian territory of Nunavut on 11 August 2020. This map has been generated using data from Copernicus Sentinel-3’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer (SLSTR). While weather forecasts use air temperatures, the Sentinel-3 SLSTR instrument measures the amount of energy radiating from…

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#Finnish town offers prizes to turn residents green

“#Finnish town offers prizes to turn residents green” People in the Finnish town of Lahti are being encouraged to lead lower-carbon lifestyles through an EU-funded scheme that tracks their emissions Inhabitants of a town in Finland can now earn rewards, including bus tickets or free food, if they cut car use, under a scheme to…

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#Damage from whopper hurricanes rising for many reasons

“#Damage from whopper hurricanes rising for many reasons” This GOES-16 GeoColor satellite image taken Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, at 2:40 p.m. EDT., and provided by NOAA, shows Hurricane Laura over the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Laura strengthened Wednesday into “an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane,” The National Hurricane Center said. Laura is expected to strike…

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