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The following is an article by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, posted March 18, 2014, with the title above: International trade of food crops led to freshwater savings worth 2.4 billion US-Dollars in 2005 and had a major impact on local water stress. This is shown in a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Trading food involves the trade of virtually embedded water used for production, and...

The following article by Robert Sanders, writing for the UC Berkeley News Center, was posted March 18, 2014, with the title above: Earth dodged a huge magnetic bullet from the sun on July 23, 2012. According to University of California, Berkeley, and Chinese researchers, a rapid succession of coronal mass ejections — the most intense eruptions on the sun — sent a pulse of magnetized plasma barreling into space and through...

The following Jet Propulsion Laboratory news article was written by NASA Earth Science News Team member Carol Rasmussen, posted March 18, 2014, with the title above: NASA’s Seasat satellite became history long ago, but it left a legacy of images of Earth’s ocean, volcanoes, forests, and other features that were made by the first synthetic aperture radar ever mounted on a satellite. Potential research uses for the recently...