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Joseph Raglione
July 17, 2009
The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (14 July 2009)

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Latest Images:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/

Drought in Africa

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39363&src=eoa-iotd

Tikehau Atoll, French Polynesia

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39329&src=eoa-iotd

Millennium Island, Kiribati

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39286&src=eoa-iotd

White Sands National Monument

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39289&src=eoa-iotd

5.7 Magnitude Quake in Southern China

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39292&src=eoa-iotd

Manam Volcano

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39248&src=eoa-iotd

Fires in Interior Alaska

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39244&src=eoa-iotd

Successful Launch of GOES-O (GOES-14)

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39236&src=eoa-iotd

Headlines from the press, radio, and television:

Urban Trees Capture Carbon Better

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39268&src=eoa-hnews

Solved: Why Blind Faults Make Big Quakes

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39269&src=eoa-hnews

Trees Buffered Earth from Iceball Fate

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39270&src=eoa-hnews

Louisiana Coast Still Vulnerable to Erosion

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39271&src=eoa-hnews

Rainforests More Fragile than Estimated

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39272&src=eoa-hnews

Experts Warn on Expanding Tropics

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39273&src=eoa-hnews

Permafrost Melting a Growing Concern

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39274&src=eoa-hnews

Loss of Seagrasses is Accelerating

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39275&src=eoa-hnews

How Earth Got Its Oxygen

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39276&src=eoa-hnews


Tropical Rainfall Moving North

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39277&src=eoa-hnews

Sea Ice Lowest in 800 Years

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39278&src=eoa-hnews

Volcano's Eruptions Create Colorful Sunsets

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39279&src=eoa-hnews

Nut Growers Look to Space for Support, Guidance

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39280&src=eoa-hnews

Mississippi River Delta to "Drown" by 2100?

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39281&src=eoa-hnews

Satellite Creates Best Topographic Map of the Earth

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39282&src=eoa-hnews

Ozone Hole has Unforeseen Effect on Ocean Carbon Sink

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39283&src=eoa-hnews

Ocean Researchers Developing Robotic Laser Network to Map the Seabed

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39284&src=eoa-hnews

Angkor's Temples and Climate Change Doom

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39256&src=eoa-hnews

Marine Science Web Site Logs On

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39257&src=eoa-hnews

Press releases from institutions that either address climate research or are NASA-funded.

Loss of Seagrass Habitat Accelerating Globally

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39262&src=eoa-manews

Super-Size Deposits of Frozen Carbon Threat to Climate Change

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39263&src=eoa-manews

Plants Save the Earth from an Icy Doom

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39264&src=eoa-manews

The Least Sea Ice in 800 Years

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39265&src=eoa-manews

New Type of El Nino Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39266&src=eoa-manews

Plants' Internal Clock Can Improve Climate-Change Models

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/view.php?id=39267&src=eoa-manews

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Joseph Raglione

About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!

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