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• NASA, NOAA: newest GOES satellite ready for action

  NASA and NOAA's latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-15, has successfully completed five months of on-orbit testing and has been accepted into service.

• What? Voyager 2 seized by aliens in space?

  Voyager 2 is a robotic probe that was launched decades ago and has proved so far to be one of the most successful research missions ever sent to space by humankind; unfortunately, normal contact was lost with the ship during the early months of 2010 at about 13 light hours distance after some garbled data was sent by Voyager, leading some people to believe that it has been seized by aliens.

• Many of Asia's glaciers are retreating as a result of climate change

  This retreat impacts water supplies to millions of people, increases the likelihood of outburst floods that threaten life and property in nearby areas, and contributes to sea-level rise.

• Climbers scale rig in freezing seas as energy giants eye Arctic oil rush

  Baffin Bay, Greenland - Campaigners have evaded a huge military security operation to scale a controversial oil rig in the freezing seas off Greenland. At dawn this morning four expert climbers in inflatable speedboats dodged Danish Navy commandos before climbing up the inside of the rig and hanging from it in tents suspended from ropes, halting its drilling operation (video and stills available).

• Drought drives decade-long decline in plant growth

  WASHINGTON - Global plant productivity that once was on the rise with warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline because of regional drought according to a new study of NASA satellite data.