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Wave Patterns Near Bajo Nuevo Reef, Caribbean Sea
On August 27, 2006, the International Space Station astronauts captured images of bright sunlight glinting off the western Caribbean Sea revealing intersecting wave patterns and oily surfactants on the surface waters around Bajo Nuevo Reef. Read More>> |
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US offers debt-for-nature swap to Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) - The United States announced its biggest ever "debt-for-nature" swap, forgiving 24 million dollars of Guatemala's foreign debt to Washington in exchange for a pledge to protect tropical forests in the central American nation.. Read More>> |
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Thousand-Mile Waves Damage Central American Coast
A storm thousands of miles away sent huge waves across the Pacific to the Central American coast, damaging dozens of homes and properties in four countries, emergency services said on Tuesday. Read More>> |
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Central Americans Tap Imaging and Mapping Capability at NSSTC
To help revitalize a river in their native country, three researchers from El Salvador recently tapped a space-based imaging and mapping capability at Marshall’s National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Read More >> |
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Parts of the Caribbean and Central America Are Likely to Have Less Summer Rain
Parts of the Caribbean and Central America are likely to experience a significant summer drying trend by the middle of this century, UCLA atmospheric scientists will report in the April 18 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Read More >> |
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CALIPSO and CloudSAT Launch Coverage [earth_sun_museum]
NASA's two newest Earth-observation satellites, CALIPSO and CloudSAT, are scheduled to be launched into polar orbit from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on April 21, 2006 at 6:02 a.m. EDT. More >> |
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The Mosquito Coast
A rounded point of land that juts out into the Caribbean Sea from the Central American isthmus is called the Mosquito Coast, a corruption of the tribal name of some of the area’s native people, the Miskito. Read More >> |
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