The earthquake in Sichuan, southwestern China, last May left around 69,000 people dead and 15 million people displaced. Now ecologists have assessed the earthquake's impact on biodiversity and the habitat for some of the last existing wild giant pandas.
A North Korean rocket slated for launch sometime early next month can be clearly seen in a satellite photograph taken Sunday, the Institute for Science and International Security said Sunday.
Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies -- satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space.
The North Koreans are nearing completion on a previously undisclosed missile test site capable of launching long-range ballistic missiles and satellites, according to private analysts who obtained satellite imagery of the site.
In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune
from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack
and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier,
scientists said Thursday
We can see the world like never before. A confluence of ubiquitous cameras, the commercialization of satellite imaging and Web sites specializing in photos and videos has put the world at our fingertips. And more is being put there every day.
The earthquake in Sichuan, southwestern China, last May left around 69,000 people dead and 15 million people displaced. Now ecologists have assessed the earthquake's impact on biodiversity and the habitat for some of the last existing wild giant pandas.
A North Korean rocket slated for launch sometime early next month can be clearly seen in a satellite photograph taken Sunday, the Institute for Science and International Security said Sunday.
Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies -- satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space.
The North Koreans are nearing completion on a previously undisclosed missile test site capable of launching long-range ballistic missiles and satellites, according to private analysts who obtained satellite imagery of the site.
In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune
from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack
and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier,
scientists said Thursday
We can see the world like never before. A confluence of ubiquitous cameras, the commercialization of satellite imaging and Web sites specializing in photos and videos has put the world at our fingertips. And more is being put there every day.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science calls it a crisis. Atmospheric scientist Timothy L. Killeen, the president of the American Geophysical Union, says it "could harm our ability to protect our citizens." We call it plain old scary.
Scientists have discovered the underground remnants of an ancient lake in Sudan's arid Darfur region, offering hope of tapping a precious resource and easing water scarcity
China last week successfully used a missile to destroy an orbiting satellite, U.S. government officials told CNN on Thursday, in a test that could undermine relations with the West and pose a threat to satellites important to the U.S. military.
Commercial satellite photos indicate Iran has begun to expand its nuclear fuel plants and has buried one beneath dozens of feet of earth and concrete, a U.S.-based nuclear watchdog group reports.
High on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions.
MY FRIEND RICHARD has out-of-body experiences in which his spirit soars over landscapes near and far, peering down at cities and people and mountains and lakes while his body remains safely tucked ...
An enormous cloud of dust is blowing toward the United States from the Sahara Desert in Africa, potentially creating spectacular sunrises and sunsets in Florida.
Washington's key allies in East Asia have expressed concern at North Korea's announcement that it is bolstering its nuclear arsenal and urged the secretive nation to return to the negotiating table.
North Korea, in a statement identical to one issued two years, says it has finished extracting 8,000 fuel rods from its reactor at Yongbyon, which it shut down a month ago, according to a report on its official news agency.
The U.S. intelligence community is monitoring what appears to be preparations by North Korea to conduct a nuclear test, a Defense Department official told CNN Friday. But the official strongly emphasized that it is unclear whether the activity is real or deceptive.
The senior adviser to Iraq's Interior Ministry blamed U.S. forces Tuesday for not securing facilities where the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says dual-use equipment that could be used to make nuclear weapons has vanished.
Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons have disappeared from Iraq, the chief of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency has warned.
North Korea is planning to carry out two more explosions as part of a hydroelectric power plant project after a major blast last week sparked speculation a nuclear test had taken place, Kyodo news agency has reported.
Diplomats from eight countries are on their way to the site of a mysterious blast in North Korea that sparked speculation a nuclear test had taken place.
Western diplomats trying to verify what triggered a massive mushroom cloud in North Korea have had a state-approved trip to the site delayed for "logistical reasons."
U.S. and South Korean officials are still trying to verify what triggered a massive mushroom cloud in North Korea amid skepticism over Pyongyang's explanation of the event.
North Korea has said a large mushroom cloud seen over the nation in satellite images was the result of a deliberate demolition of a mountain for a power plant.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said his pre-war testimony to the U.N. Security Council about Iraq's alleged mobile, biological weapons labs was based on information that appears not to be "solid."
Tim Langevin is in charge of an American tank platoon, and today his mission is simple: Escort a convoy of military supply trucks across the Tunisian desert. But things suddenly turn complicated wh...
Kennedy Space Center, Sept. 25, 1997: Standing outside the Launch Control Center, Shelley Harrison peers into the Florida evening sky. Four miles away the space shuttle Atlantis is bathed in a blaz...
IT WAS AN AWFUL MESS,'' recalls Gene Wirsig, a technical services manager for the western division of Potlatch Corp. The FORTUNE 500 forest products company ^ owns 600,000 acres of timberland in no...
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