The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.

ENGADGET: NASA's GROVER eco-rover to examine Greenland's ice sheet (video)

Under a desert sun, to a backdrop of the Andes Mountains, scientists teach sponsors to read a landscape that is 100 million years old and to recognize, via texture and colour, fossils in the prehistoric rock.

BBC: The dinosaur route of northwest Patagonia

Netatmo allows users to contribute to its Urban Weather Program, creating a wider network for weather data monitoring and pooling to help meteorologists, environmental activists, scientists and people living in urban environments gain a better understanding of the city climate landscape.

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