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New paroxysm at Mount Etna August 12, 2011

Throughout 2011, activity at Sicily?s?Mount Etna?has been characterized by paroxysms: short, violent bursts of activity. Each event has included volcanic tremors, ash emissions, and lava flows centered around the New Southeast Crater, just below the summit. On August 12, 2011, Etna had its tenth paroxysm of the year, captured in this natural-color satellite [?]

Dust and clouds blew over the Taklimakan Desert in western China August 12, 2011

Dust and clouds blew over the Taklimakan Desert in western China on August 11, 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer?(MODIS)?on NASA?s?Aqua?satellite took this picture the same day. Sitting inside the Tarim Basin, the Taklimakan Desert is the warmest, driest, largest desert in China, and it ranks among the world?s largest shifting-sand dese [?]

Crop failure compounds drought crisis in Afghanistan August 12, 2011

Ongoing drought in northern, northeastern and western Afghanistan is likely to push 1.5-2 million more people into food insecurity this autumn, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).?? This is in addition to the seven million country-wide already facing food shortages.? The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (MAIL) is reporting a fail [?]

Active sunspot 1263 has left the Earthside of the sun August 12, 2011

Active sunspot 1263, which just two days ago produced the most powerful solar flare of the new Solar Cycle (an X7), has left the Earthside of the sun. It is now beginning a two week transit across the solar farside. We can still see signs of its ongoing activity, however. On August 11th, an eruption from sunspot 1263 hurled a bright CME over the sun?s wester [?]

Saharan dust blew over the Atlantic Ocean August 11, 2011

Saharan dust blew over the Atlantic Ocean in early August 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer?(MODIS)?on NASA?s?Terra?satellite captured this image on August 11, 2011: A dust plume runs northeast-southwest over the ocean, blowing past the border between Western Sahara and Mauritania. The dust plume appears to dissipate in a constellation [?]

New breed of mice resistant to poisons August 11, 2011

Scientists say that some European house mice have developed resistance to the strongest poisons. German and Spanish mice have rapidly evolved the trait by breeding with an Algerian species from which they have been separate for over a million years. The researchers say this type of gene transfer is highly unusual and normally found in plants and bacteria. Th [?]

Source: http://www.jdreport.com/2011/08/13/restore-confidence-and-avoid-a-global-economic-depression/

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