David Blankenship on October 13th, 2008

Smog Blog” for Central America and Caribbean Debut
Ruben Delgado and Hipolito Guerra work to update the “smog blog.” Image Credit: SERVIR
NASA and its partners today unveiled a new way to connect satellite air quality data with communities in Central America and the Caribbean. The MesoAmerican and Caribbean Smog Blog, a Web site interpreting local [...]

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Calbert Dyer on October 12th, 2008

Heavy rainfalls and cold weather is what we are getting here in Costa Rica, and it is apparently going to stay this way until the end of the rainy season in December. At least five more tropical storms are expected, and any one of these can become a hurricane and there is nothing that [...]

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Firetown Mike Dammann on October 6th, 2008

I have been living in Costa Rica for about 2 years. I remember coming here in October of 2006 and the first month I was thinking “Why did I come here, I like heat, beaches, surf. I feel like I’m in Oregon sitting inside wishing the rain would stop.”
Then after about a month from one [...]

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