[Saturday, March 1, 2008] Paris, France is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 16 crewmember on the International Space Station. A crisp, clear winter day over France provided a detailed view of the city of Paris.

[Friday, March 7, 2008] Astrophysicists are having a heated debate over the wave structure of the Sun's Corona - a debate which may one day influence solar weather forecasting and the theory behind fusion reactors.

[Friday, March 7, 2008] Swooping through space are solitary waves, which in theory do not change form or lose energy as they go along. These waves, which exist on Earth in different media, have been detected and explained for the first time in space thanks to Cluster data.

[Friday, March 7, 2008] Scientists have solved a 40-year-old puzzle by identifying the origin of the intense radio waves in the Earth's upper atmosphere that control the dynamics of the Van Allen radiation belts.

[Saturday, March 8, 2008] Scott Parazynski leaves for Nepal on 23 March 2008 to climb Mt. Everest as a non-guided member of the International Mountain Guides group composed of Scott, Adam Janikowski, Kami Sherpa and Ang Namgya Sherpa.

[Monday, March 10, 2008] "Polar-Palooza: Stories from a Changing Planet," an education initiative supported by NASA and NSF, comes to the National Geographic Society in Washington on March 13 as part of a national tour of science centers and museums.

[Tuesday, March 11, 2008] One of the experiments housed on the European Columbus laboratory's external platform is an automated eye in the sky known as the Earth Viewing Camera (EVC).

[Tuesday, March 11, 2008] The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (11 March 2008)

[Thursday, March 13, 2008] Brown University professor Peter Schultz's study of the Peruvian meteorite has yielded some interesting conclusions that could upend the conventional wisdom about the size and type of meteorites that can strike Earth.

[Thursday, March 13, 2008] The organic soup that spawned life on Earth may have gotten generous helpings from outer space, according to a new study.

[Thursday, March 13, 2008] POLAR-PALOOZA is a national tour featuring public presentations entitled "Stories From a Changing Planet."

[Tuesday, March 18, 2008] Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite, scientists have for the first time detected regionally elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide.

[Tuesday, March 18, 2008] A new global portrait taken from space details Earth's land cover with a resolution never before obtained.

[Tuesday, March 18, 2008] Researchers offer the first measurement-based estimate of the amount of pollution from East Asian forest fires, urban exhaust, and industrial production that makes its way to western North America.

[Saturday, March 22, 2008] In May 2008 a team of climbers will attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Among the team members will be an astronaut - Scott Parazynski. Below is the gear list that Parazynski prepared for his trip to Mt. Everest:

[Sunday, March 23, 2008] "OK, so Gladys Knight has a better knack for lyrics, but I'm about to depart on a pilgrimage today that I've been dreaming of (and preparing for) my entire life - a trip that I hope will take me all the way to the summit of Mount Everest."

[Tuesday, March 25, 2008] The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies is sponsoring an Earth Day photo contest for middle school students

[Thursday, March 27, 2008] Scientists have discovered that a deficiency of oxygen and the heavy metal molybdenum in the ancient deep ocean may have delayed the evolution of animal life on Earth for nearly 2 billion years.

[Thursday, March 27, 2008] British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula.

[Sunday, March 30, 2008] "We've got one last night here camped at 11,300' above sea level, the time being very well spent, allowing our bodies to acclimatize to the relatively thin atmosphere en route to the summit."