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Floods in Argentina
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Published April 10, 2007
Already swollen from late summer rain, Argentina’s Paraná River and its tributaries burst their banks under the onslaught of extreme rain during the last week of March 2007.
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Plume at Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
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Published April 9, 2007
Shiveluch, one of Kamchatka’s most active volcanoes, began its latest activity with gas and steam emissions in mid- to late March 2007. This image was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) around mid-morning on or around March 21, 2007. It shows a steam plume, probably containing minor amounts of ash, blowing westward from the summit of the volcano. The astronauts were crossing over the southern tip of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, with a clear view of the volcano about 5 degrees north of the ground track of the ISS. Subsequent eruptions on March 29 and 30 have been recorded by the Kamchatka Volcano Observatory and NASA satellites.
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Plume at Mount Bagana, Bouganville Island
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Published April 8, 2007
Bouganville Island is geographically part of the Solomon Islands chain to the east of Papua New Guinea. (Politically, the island is part of Papua New Guinea.) Bouganville is typical of many Pacific Rim islands in that volcanism has played a large part in both its geological and recorded history. The island hosts three large volcanoes along its northwest-southeast trending axis: Mount Balbi, Mount Bagana, and the Mount Takuan volcanic complex. Mount Bagana, located near image center in this astronaut photograph, is the only historically active volcano on the island.
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Melt Ponds on Greenland’s Ice Cap
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Published April 7, 2007
Thinner than the 2.3-kilometer-thick center, the outer edges of the Greenland ice sheet develop melt zones like the one shown here during the warm summer months.
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Dust and Clouds over Eastern China
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Published April 6, 2007
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Melting Days on Greenland
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Piton de la Fournaise Volcano
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Published April 5, 2007
Drought in China
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Normally rainy months in China’s south, February and March 2007 saw almost no rain. In some places, the warm weather allowed winter crops like winter wheat to thrive, growing more thickly than normal. In others, the warm weather and lack of rain withered plants.
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