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Google’s new Gombe Street View lets users ‘walk’ along chimp trails and into Jane Goodall’s house

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

Joint force uses Google Earth to find elephant poaching camps in Mozambique, captures poachers in raid

Morgan Erickson-Davis 30 Sep 2014

Google Earth spurs discovery of a ‘new’ chameleon species

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2014

Using Google Earth to protect uncontacted tribes in the Amazon rainforest

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Jun 2014

Revolutionary Google-backed system unlocks power of ‘big data’ to save forests

Rhett A. Butler 20 Feb 2014

Google forest data now available for download

Mongabay.com 14 Feb 2014

Google Earth reveals fish catch is 6 times greater than thought in Persian Gulf

Mongabay.com 27 Nov 2013

Malaysia has the world’s highest deforestation rate, reveals Google forest map

Rhett A. Butler 15 Nov 2013

Deforestation accelerates in Indonesia, finds Google forest map

Rhett A. Butler 14 Nov 2013

Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide

Rhett A. Butler 14 Nov 2013

Google Earth presents fish-eye view of coral reefs

Jeremy Hance 20 Aug 2013

Cause of haze? Up to 87% of recent deforestation in fire zone due to palm oil, timber

Rhett A. Butler 26 Jun 2013

Google Time-lapse offers view of Earth over 3 decades

Mongabay.com 10 May 2013

Google Earth used to discover unknown forest in Angola, scientists find it full of rare birds

Jeremy Hance 9 Jul 2012

New geojournalism mapping platform for the Amazon

Mongabay.com 21 Jun 2012

Global deforestation alert tool developed from NASA satellite imagery launches

Mongabay.com 30 May 2012

New Google Earth tool maps deforestation, threatened forests in Sumatra

Mongabay.com 24 May 2012

Now on Google Earth: NASA updates global forest height map

Mongabay.com 18 Apr 2012

Google brings Street View, Maps to the Amazon (photos)

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2012

Amazon rainforest communities added to Google Street View

Mongabay.com 22 Aug 2011

Google Earth used to identify marine animal behavior

Jeremy Hance 14 Jun 2011

Google Earth enhances oceans’ layer

Jeremy Hance 8 Jun 2011

New technology enables scientists to map rainforest biodiversity by airplane

Mongabay.com 2 Jun 2011

iPhone app uses Google Earth to track climate change impact on redwoods

Karimeh Moukaddem 24 May 2011

Google Earth animation reveals Indonesian forest targeted for destruction by pulp and paper companies

Rhett A. Butler 14 May 2011

Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market: Opportunities Under REDD

Gabriel Thoumi 3 May 2011

Using Google Earth to monitor threats to archeological sites

Rhett A. Butler 16 Mar 2011

Before-and-after tsunami satellite pictures

Mongabay.com 15 Mar 2011

Monitoring deforestation: an interview with Brazilian space researcher Gilberto Camara

Rhett A. Butler 8 Feb 2011

Google lends its massive computing cloud in fight against deforestation

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2010

Google Earth now features 3-D trees

Rhett A. Butler 29 Nov 2010

Google Earth launches ocean layer for iPhone, iPad users

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2010

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