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Deforestation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
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Published November 14, 2008
The most conspicuous difference between the images is the widespread forest clearing—visible as rectangles of gray-beige—that had occurred by 2006.
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L’Anse Aux Meadows, Canada
Published November 13, 2008
At the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland are the archeological remains of the oldest known European settlement in the New World, L'Anse aux Meadows.
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Adis Abeba, Ethiopia
Published November 7, 2008
Although it is only the tenth largest country in Africa, Ethiopia is the second most populous country on the continent. Nearly a third of the country’s urban population lives in Adis Abeba (more commonly known as Addis Ababa).
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Cropland and Prairie, Cimarron County, Oklahoma
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Published August 20, 2008
In the second week of August 2008, the western Oklahoma Panhandle got just enough rain to ease the region’s drought status from “exceptional” to “extreme“ according to the U.S. Drought Monitor report from August 12. The scattered August rains may be responsible for some of the vegetation patterns recorded by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite in this image from August 14, 2008.
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Kasatochi, Aleutian Islands
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Published August 16, 2008
Tiny Kasatochi Volcano created a big mess in August 2008, spewing ash and sulfur dioxide over the Aleutian Islands.
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