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Beginning in late July 2008, the remaining ice shelves along the northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island underwent rapid retreat, losing a total of 214 square kilometers (83 square miles).
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For 10 years, the DEVELOP program has pushed the envelope of the traditional summer internship, encouraging students into research projects with big implications for society.
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Global sea level is on the rise, but the rise isn't uniform across the ocean. In this image, white and red show where sea level has risen the most; purple and blue where it has dropped.
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On September 5, 2008, a dust storm formed over Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.
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Tropical Storm Josephine formed in the eastern Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands on September 2, 2008.
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Carbon monoxide concentrations across Africa between August 25 and September 1, 2008, were elevated from widespread agricultural burning and wildfires.
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Between the last week of August and the first week of September 2008, the Atlantic Ocean queued up a series of tropical storms. In the wake of Gustav and Hanna, the third storm in the queue, named Ike, made its way westward.
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Gustav may have spared the United States from the destruction that many feared, but it hit Cuba hard.
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On August 28, 2008, the eighth named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season got underway in the Caribbean Sea. Hanna made landfall on the East Coast as a tropical storm on September 6.
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Gustav formed off the coast of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea on August 25, 2008.
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Monsoon rains regularly swell rivers in northern India, but in 2008, the Kosi, a tributary of the Ganges and a major river in its own right, did something different. It burst through its banks to flow into a channel it had abandoned more than 200 years ago.
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In late August and early September 2008, widespread fires in Mozambique and South Africa poured smoke out of the Indian Ocean.
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Dormant for more than 9,000 years, the Chaiten Volcano in southern Chile began to erupt on May 2, 2008, forcing thousands of residents from their homes. In the months that followed, the volcano remained active.
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For Earth imagery from NASA.
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