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Drought-driven wildfires on rise in Amazon basin, upping CO2 release

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

Coral reef monitoring takes to the skies: drone-mounted hyperspectral cameras help scientists assess health of coral reefs

Colleen O'Brien 19 Feb 2018

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Feb 2018

Drones enable fast, accurate wildlife counts, study shows

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Feb 2018

Cattle invade Colombian national park

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Feb 2018

Carbon pricing could save millions of hectares of tropical forest: new study

John Cannon 5 Feb 2018

Amazon rainforest hit by surge in small-scale deforestation, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Feb 2018

Maps tease apart complex relationship between agriculture and deforestation in DRC

John Cannon 2 Feb 2018

Zero-deforestation pledges need help, support to meet targets, new study finds

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Data fusion opens new horizons for remote imaging of landscapes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Jan 2018

Pope set to visit site of deforestation, indigenous struggle in Peru

Mongabay.com 19 Jan 2018

New satellite data reveals forest loss far greater than expected in Brazil Amazon

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jan 2018

Record Amazon fires, intensified by forest degradation, burn indigenous lands

Zoe Sullivan 18 Jan 2018

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as Congress stalls

Giovanni Ortolani 12 Jan 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018
A coral reef ecosystem in the Sulug Sea, Borneo. Photo courtesy of Greg Asner / DivePhoto.org

Reefscape: A global reef survey to build better satellites for coral conservation

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 2 Jan 2018

Combining computing power and people power to identify key deforestation hotspots

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 26 Dec 2017

New carbon maps of Sabah’s forests guide conservation in Borneo

John Cannon 29 Nov 2017

Long-term droughts are throttling growth in Hawaiian forests, finds airborne laser-based study

Alex Fox 27 Nov 2017

Where one predator meets another: tracking sharks and fishing effort

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Nov 2017

An early warning system for locating forest loss

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Nov 2017

More big mammals found in high-carbon forests, says new study

John Cannon 15 Nov 2017

Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2017
The Amazon rainforest along southeastern Peru's Tambopata River, seen from above.

Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Nov 2017

Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation

Zoe Sullivan 2 Nov 2017

New resource for planning camera trapping, acoustic monitoring, and LiDAR projects

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Nov 2017

Parks and reserves ‘significant’ force for slowing climate change

Mongabay.com 30 Oct 2017

Suite of free, open-source tools to help even non-experts monitor large-scale land use change

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Oct 2017

Deforestation drops 16% in the Brazilian Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Oct 2017

Amazonian manatee migration at risk from disruption by proposed dams

Claire Salisbury 19 Oct 2017

Trending tree cover loss spikes again in Queensland

Mongabay.com 8 Oct 2017

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