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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

European Space Agency

Europe's new Earth monitoring probe takes first image

First raw image from Proba-V, acquired over France’s west coast on 15 May 2013. Image credit: ESA(Sen) - Proba-V, the European Space Agency's Earth watching satellite, is in good health following its launch last week. The satellite's vegetation imager ... [Published SEN - 5 hours ago]

Entities: European Space Agency, Kourou (French Guiana), French Guiana

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

ESA's Proba-V Turns On In Time To Catch...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its Vega rocket on May 7 carrying multiple payloads. The launch was meant to demonstrate the versatility of the agency’s VESPA multiple launch adapter. After last week’s early morning lift-off, Vega ... [Published Red Orbit - May 17 2013]

Entities: European Space Agency, Payload, Land cover

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Proba-V opens its eyes

Earth watcher Proba-V is in good health following its launch last week. The Vegetation imager has been switched on and the first image has been captured over western France.The miniature satellite is designed to map land cover and vegetation growth across ... [Published ASDNews.com: Be the first to know - May 17 2013]

Entities: Land cover, Deforestation, France

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

GSi, Ecometrica Monitor Global Carbon Changes

Environmental accounting software developer Ecometrica has partnered with Global Surface Intelligence to launch GSi’s global forest monitoring service that the companies say will allow investors and to better react to environmental and market develop ... [Published Environmental Leader - May 16 2013]

Entities: Carbon, Land Use, Land cover, Environment, Biophysics

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Will address water quality

Lacombe County has given itself an environmental report card and the results are encouraging.“Overall, we are not in dire straits,” said Blayne West, environmental coordinator. “We are in quite good health but we do have a couple of areas with room for ... [Published Lacombe Globe - May 16 2013]

Entities: Environment, literature reviews, Habitat, Land cover, Environmental Management

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Forecasting fish distribution along stream networks: brown trout (Salmo trutta) in Europe

Species inhabiting fresh waters are severely affected by climate change and other anthropogenic stressors. Effective management and conservation plans require advances in the accuracy and reliability of species distribution forecasts. Here, we forecast ... [Published Bionity.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Salmo, Species, Land cover

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

University of California Berkeley

Racial minorities live on the front lines of heat risk, study finds

Racial groups are more likely to live in neighborhoods dominated by heat-absorbing hard surfaces, finds a UC Berkeley study. Such tree-deprived landscapes magnify the effects of heat waves.(Medical Xpress)—Some racial groups are more likely to bear the ... [Published Medical Xpress - May 14 2013]

Entities: Endothermic, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Health, Global Warming/Climate Change

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Innovative vegetation monitor now up in the sky with Proba-V

A newcomer has joined ESA’s Earth Observation fleet with the launch of Proba-V, an innovative and new miniaturised satellite that will track vegetation on a global scale. Its data will provide researchers, educators and students with new data and images, ... [Published European Space Agency - May 07 2013]

Entities: Land cover, European Space Agency, Species

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

Italian-built Vega satellite carrier launched

'A model for Italian hi-tech' says Premier Letta (supersedes previous) (ANSA) - Rome, May 7 - The European Space Agency's newest rocket satellite carrier was launched successfully into space early Tuesday.Vega, which was built outside Rome, took off from ... [Published ansa.it - May 07 2013]

Entities: Francesco Caio, Enrico Letta, University of Tartu, Land cover

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

European rocket lifts off from French Guiana

AThe launcher was originally due to head skywards on Saturday morning, but was delayed because of bad weather. ?It?s rather specialised in science, whether it?s the sciences of the earth or the sciences of the universe. This is a launcher that is needed ... [Published EuroNews - May 07 2013]

Entities: French Guiana, European Space Agency, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Land cover

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Wiki seeks local ‘ground truth’ to help build better maps

A new project based on a collaboration between Australia’s AusCover facility and Europe’s Geo-Wiki Project will enable anyone to contribute local knowledge to the development of more accurate land cover maps. ... [Published ECOS Magazine - May 06 2013]

Entities: Wiki, Land cover, collaboration

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

Measuring Landscape Disturbance of Gas Exploration in Allegheny and Susquehanna Counties

Landscape change in Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Susquehanna counties resulting from construction of well pads, new roads and pipelines for natural gas and coalbed methane exploration is being documented to help determine the potential consequences for ... [Published Sensors & Systems - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Natural Gas, Land cover, Pipeline, Land Use, United States Geological Survey

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"Then a full telemetry session confirmed the stabilisation of the satellite's attitude, or pointing direction. The onboard computer used'magnetorquers', basically magnets interacting with Earth's magnetic field, to control the satellite's attitude and compensate for the spin imparted by the separation."

Europe's new Earth monitoring probe takes first image [Published SEN - 5 hours ago]

...change," said study lead author Bill Jesdale, research associate in UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. "It may not be surprising that minorities live in inner cities, but this is the first paper to assess what that means in terms of heat vulnerability at a national level."

Racial minorities live on the front lines of heat risk, study finds [Published Medical Xpress - May 14 2013]

"There may be a limit for expansion of agriculture in Amazonia. Below this limit, there are not important economic consequences of this expansion. Beyond this limit, the feedbacks that we demonstrated start to introduce significant losses in the agriculture production" continued Dr Oliveira

No-win situation for agricultural expansion in the Amazon, research says [Published PhysOrg.com - May 10 2013]

...and mutual awareness of environmental conditions around the globe," said Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science. "The 40-year archive of Landsat images of every spot on earth is a treasure trove of scientific information that can form the basis for a myriad of useful applications by commercial enterprises, government scientists and managers, the academic community, and the public at large."

Landsat Images Provide the Gold Standard for New Earth Applications [Published Directions Magazine - May 09 2013]

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Proba-V opens its eyes [Published ASDNews.com: Be the first to know - May 17 2013]
Proba-V opens its eyes [Published European Space Agency - May 17 2013]
GSi, Ecometrica Monitor Global Carbon Changes [Published Environmental Leader - May 16 2013]
Will address water quality [Published Lacombe Globe - May 16 2013]
Cri-report Russia Paper Market Grows Healthly [Published PR inside - May 16 2013]
Forecasting fish distribution along stream netw... [Published Bionity.com - May 16 2013]
The Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Heat Risk-Rel... [Published Full Text Reports... - May 15 2013]
Racial minorities live on the front lines of he... [Published Medical Xpress - May 14 2013]
Google Earth Engine unveils how Earth has altered [Published Christian Science Monitor - May 10 2013]
Want to Save the Environment? Build More Cities [Published Spectrum Online - May 10 2013]
Amazon deforestation could hurt Brazil’s farmers [Published Responding to Climate Change - May 10 2013]
Expanding agriculture in Amazon is ‘no-win’ sce... [Published Environmental Research Web - May 10 2013]
No-win situation for agricultural expansion in ... [Published PhysOrg.com - May 10 2013]
Landsat Images Provide the Gold Standard for Ne... [Published Directions Magazine - May 09 2013]
The New Generation of Digital Globes – Displayi... [Published Earthzine - May 09 2013]
Innovative vegetation monitor now up in the sk... [Published European Space Agency - May 07 2013]
Italian-built Vega satellite carrier launched [Published ansa.it - May 07 2013]
Italian-built Vega satellite carrier launched i... [Published ansa.it - May 07 2013]
European rocket lifts off from French Guiana [Published EuroNews - May 07 2013]
Want to Save the Environment? Build More Cities [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 07 2013]
Arianespace's Vega Flight VV02 is set for launc... [Published SpaceRef - May 06 2013]
Wiki seeks local ‘ground truth’ to help build b... [Published ECOS Magazine - May 06 2013]
Climate change responsible for global vegetatio... [Published Herald & Review - May 06 2013]
A Look at AfriGEOSS [Published Earthzine - May 06 2013]
Bad weather delays ESA's Vega satellite launch [Published New Europe - May 06 2013]
European Vega rocket launch delayed due to weather [Published TruthDive - May 05 2013]
VV02 fairing integration [Published European Space Agency - May 03 2013]

Blogs

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Want to Save the Environment? Build More Cities [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 07 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Steven Cherry: In a paper published last summer , researchers predicted that “by 2030, urban land cover will nearly [triple] the global urban land area” of the year 2000, resulting in “considerable loss ...
Global heating update [Published Larvatus Prodeo - Apr 29 2013] Last month we had a look at the Bigger, better, new hockey stick from a study by Marcott et al. Since then Skeptical Science has a post on the phoney skeptical/denialist critique of the study. We now have a new study , Continental-scale temperature ...
New Study: During Past 2,000 Years Temperatures... [Published Hit & Run - Apr 26 2013] Nature Geoscience has published a remarkably interesting new article, " Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia ," by aninternational team of researchers using proxy temperature data fromeach continent. As LiveScience ...
The Hockey Stick Lives: New Study Confirms Unpr... [Published Think Progress - Apr 23 2013] Last month, we reported on the umpteenth study that confirmed the Hockey Stick. It made clear the rate of global warming since 1900 is 50 times greater than the rate of cooling in the previous 5000 years. That study, Marcott et al, is the most ...
A look at the world now explains 90 percent of ... [Published EarthSky - Apr 16 2013] Geographers from the University of Zurich and colleagues from the Netherlands now reveal that over half of these changes are climatological, humans or as yet unknown human-climate interactions cause over a third and around ten percent cannot be explained ...

Press Releases

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Cri-report Russia Paper Market Grows Healthly [Published PR inside - May 16 2013]
Media Advisory: Upcoming global conference to d... [Published CisionWire - English - Apr 04 2013]
Research and Markets: Russia Paper Industry For... [Published Business Wire Natural Resources News - Mar 19 2013]
Research and Markets: Russia Paper Industry For... [Published Business Wire Manufacturing News - Mar 19 2013]