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US Earth-observing satellites in jeopardy, AAAS Board cautions

As US policy-makers prepare for hearings later this week on space-science and climate-change research, the world's largest general science society today warned that budget cuts are threatening US satellites essential for weather forecasting, hurricane warning, studies of global climate change and more.

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