[Monday, September 3, 2007] Christner's discoveries of viable microbes in ancient ice cores and subglacial environments coupled with the realization that large quantities of liquid water exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheet have changed the way biologists view life in Antarctica.

[Monday, September 3, 2007] A switch from predominantly undersea volcanoes to a mix of undersea and terrestrial ones shifted the Earth's atmosphere from devoid of oxygen to one with free oxygen, according to geologists.

[Tuesday, September 4, 2007] Greece has experienced more wildfire activity this August than other countries have over the last decade, according to data from satellites. The country is battling an outbreak of blazes that have spread across the country killing more than 60 people.

[Thursday, September 6, 2007] A new study supported by NASA and the U.S. Office of Naval Research takes forecasters one step further to improving their ability to predict just how powerful an oncoming storm may become by using highly-sensitive sensors.

[Thursday, September 6, 2007] The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt.

[Wednesday, September 12, 2007] Cluster data has helped provide scientists with a new view of magnetospheric processes, challenging existing theories about magnetic substorms that cause aurorae and perturbations in GPS signals.

[Sunday, September 16, 2007] NASA scientists will join researchers from around the world to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to reduce the hole in Earth's protective ozone layer.

[Sunday, September 16, 2007] Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka, Russian Far East is one of the biggest and most active of a line of volcanoes along the spine of the Kamchatka peninsula in easternmost Russia.

[Sunday, September 16, 2007] This view of Hurricane Felix was taken from the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS) by an Expedition 15 crewmember using a digital still camera equipped with a 28-70 mm lens set at 28 mm focal length on Sept. 3, 2007 at 11:38:46 GMT.

[Monday, September 17, 2007] The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage - a short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.

[Thursday, September 20, 2007] On the world's coldest continent of Antarctica, the landscape is so vast and varied that only satellites can fully capture the extent of changes in the snow melting across its valleys, mountains, glaciers and ice shelves.

[Thursday, September 20, 2007] Geochemists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are challenging commonly held ideas about how gases are expelled from the Earth.

[Thursday, September 20, 2007] The NASA-managed Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) instrument settled into orbit around Earth in 1997 and took its first measurements of ocean color.

[Friday, September 21, 2007] The NASA Science Mission Directorate requests information on potential small Earth and space science payloads that could be deployed on the International Space Station (ISS).

[Monday, September 24, 2007] New models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider range of Earth-size planets that astronomers might actually be able to find in the near future.

[Tuesday, September 25, 2007] A team of scientists provides evidence that an asteroid impact likely caused the sudden climate changes that killed off the mammoths and other majestic beasts of prehistory.

[Tuesday, September 25, 2007] NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites Program, has awarded an instrument contract to Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Md.

[Wednesday, September 26, 2007] The NOAA Space Environment Center has been approved to officially change its name to the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).

[Wednesday, September 26, 2007] A new NASA-supported study reports that 2007 marked an overall rise in the melting trend over the entire Greenland ice sheet and, remarkably, melting in high-altitude areas was greater than ever at 150 percent more than average.

[Wednesday, September 26, 2007] Cleanup and rebuilding teams responding to the devastation across Greece caused by this summer’s deadly fires are getting help from space.

[Thursday, September 27, 2007] Two teams of scientists, including three researchers from UC Riverside, report that traces of oxygen appeared in Earth's atmosphere roughly 100 million years before the "Great Oxidation Event" 2.4 billion years ago.

[Thursday, September 27, 2007] Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen's University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts.

[Thursday, September 27, 2007] Observations and climate model results confirm that human-induced warming of the planet is having a pronounced effect on the atmosphere's total moisture content.

[Thursday, September 27, 2007] Simushir is a deserted, 5-mile-wide volcanic island in the Kuril island chain, half way between northern Japan and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia.

[Friday, September 28, 2007] Yesterday ESA's Member States participating in the GMES Programme approved the transition to Phase-2 of Segment 1 of the GMES Space Component Programme.