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Nepal’s community forest program misses the biodiversity for the trees

Abhaya Raj Joshi 22 Feb 2023
Fires near the community of Quitunuquiña in the municipality of Roboré in the department of Santa Cruz. Photo courtesy of Claudia Belaunde.

Bolivian protected areas hit hard by forest fires

Iván Paredes Tamayo 10 Nov 2022

In Brazil’s Pantanal, a desperate struggle to save a hyacinth macaw refuge from fire

Jennifer Ann Thomas 17 Sep 2020

Brazilian Amazon protected areas ‘in flames’ as land-grabbers invade

Ana Ionova 7 Aug 2020

Fires in the Pantanal: ‘We are facing a scenario now that is catastrophic’

Ana Ionova 6 Aug 2020
Earlier reports based on satellite data suggested that the Danger Islands could be home to several penguin "supercolonies." However, heavy pack ice is common around the Danger Islands, even in austral summer, making difficult to access this area to conduct a comprehensive survey. Credit: Rachael Herman, Louisiana State University, © Stony Brook University

Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists’ hopes

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2018

NASA releases images of dramatic deforestation in Cambodia

Morgan Erickson-Davis 13 Jan 2017

Carbon emissions from Indonesia’s peat fires exceed emissions from entire U.S. economy

Rhett A. Butler 15 Oct 2015

NASA photo shows New Guinea going up in flames

Rhett A. Butler 7 Oct 2015

NASA reveals rise in deforestation in remote Peruvian parks

Mongabay.com 27 Apr 2015

Researchers create global map of world’s forests circa 1990

Rhett A. Butler 14 Oct 2014

NASA: Forest loss leaps in Bolivia, Mekong region

Mongabay.com 8 Aug 2014

NASA successfully launches carbon-sensing satellite

Mongabay.com 2 Jul 2014

NASA data: 1997 all over again for Indonesia?

Mongabay.com 14 May 2014

NASA photographs the amazing ‘guitar forest’

Jeremy Hance 30 Apr 2014

NASA detects surge in deforestation in Malaysia, Bolivia during first quarter of 2014

Mongabay.com 21 Apr 2014

Amazon rainforest does not ‘green up’ during the dry season

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2014

Alaska roasting: new NASA map shows the Final Frontier in grip of January heatwave

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2014

2013 was the seventh hottest year yet

Jeremy Hance 27 Jan 2014

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett A. Butler 10 Dec 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

Bolivia, Madagascar, China see jump in forest loss

Mongabay.com 1 Nov 2013

Deforestation alerts for Madagascar, DRC, Bolivia during Q2-2013

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2013

Haze fires concentrated in deforested peatlands, not forest areas, confirms satellite analysis

Mongabay.com 10 Jul 2013

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

Rhett A. Butler 26 Jun 2013

NASA: Deforestation jumps in Malaysia

Mongabay.com 10 Jun 2013

NASA: 3% of Amazon rainforest burned between 1999-2010

Rhett A. Butler 8 Jun 2013

Data from NASA’s Landsat 8 now freely available

Rhett A. Butler 2 Jun 2013

Researchers develop highest-resolution global forest cover dataset to date

Mongabay.com 17 May 2013

Conservation gets boost from new Landsat satellite

Rhett A. Butler 3 Apr 2013

NASA says 2012 was the 9th warmest year since 1880, blames global warming

Mongabay.com 15 Jan 2013

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