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Dust storm, China

Dust obscuring most of the Liaoning region of China
and parts of northern and western Korea.
Left: March 23, 2002, a relatively clear day. Right:
April 8, 2002, a day of extremely dusty skies. Storms
transport mineral dust from the deserts of China and
Mongolia over great distances, as well as pollution
from agriculture, industry and power generation.
Asian dust has been detected as far away as
Colorado. Thick clouds of dust block substantial
amounts of incoming sunlight, which in turn can
influence marine phytoplankton production and
have a cooling effect on regional climates.
Images taken by NASA's Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR). Credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team.

Fires, California
A series of wildfires erupted along the coastal
region north of San Diego, California, in midMay as a heat wave, drought and dry Santa
Ana winds combined to create ideal fire
conditions. The Bernardo Fire began on May
13 and several other fires followed. At one
point, firefighters were battling at least eight
active wildfires and more than 175,000
evacuation notices were issued. The left
image shows the area before the fires began.
The image on the right, in which red tones
indicate burned areas, was acquired eight
days later.
Images taken by the Operational Land Imager onboard Landsat 8 and the Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus onboard Landsat 7. Source:
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat Missions Gallery "Fires in California, USA," U.S. Department of the Interior / USGS and NASA.

Global warming
Global temperature changes. Left: 1880-1889. Right: 2000-2009. These maps compare temperatures in each
region of the world to what they were from 1951 to 1980. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies conducted
the analysis using ship-based and satellite observations of sea-surface temperature, and data from Antarctic
research stations and 6,300 meteorological stations around the world. Earth's average surface temperature has
increased by about 0.7 C (1.3 F) since 1880. Two-thirds of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of
roughly 0.15 to 0.20 C per decade.
Data from NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Courtesy of the NASA Earth Observatory and Mike Carlowicz.

Ice melt, Italy / Switzerland

The nearly 15,000-ft-high Matterhorn mountain, located in the Alps on
the border between Italy and Switzerland. Left: August 16, 1960 at 9.00
am. Right: August 18, 2005 at 9.10 am.
1960 photo taken by Bradford Washburn; 2005 photo taken by David Arnold. Source: Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA.

Muir Glacier melt, Alaska

Muir Glacier. Also see this image
pair , this image pair and this
image pair of the same glacier.
1941 photo taken by Ulysses William O. Field; 2004 photo taken by Bruce F. Molnia. Courtesy of the
Glacier Photograph Collection, National Snow and Ice Data Center/World Data Center for Glaciology.
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Muir Glacier melt, Alaska

Muir Glacier. Also see this image pair, this image
pair and this image pair of the same glacier.
1882 photo taken by G.D. Hazard; 2005 photo taken by Bruce F. Molnia. Courtesy of the Glacier Photograph Collection, National Snow and Ice Data
Center/World Data Center for Glaciology.

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