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Study finds widespread degradation, deforestation in African woodlands

John Cannon 27 Aug 2018

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

John Cannon 23 Aug 2018

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Gloria Dickie 22 Aug 2018

Tracking tools identify regional hubs of whale shark activity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Aug 2018

‘High risk’ that China’s timber from PNG is illegal: New report

John Cannon 9 Aug 2018

Fire, more than logging, drives Amazon forest degradation, study finds

David Klinges 6 Aug 2018

Community groups in Cambodia say logging surged with approaching election

Mongabay.com 29 Jul 2018

Logging roads drive loss of intact forest in FSC-certified logging concessions

John Cannon 27 Jun 2018

New study provides blueprint to translate satellite data into conservation action

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Jun 2018

2018 Arctic sea ice melt season just got a big headstart

Gloria Dickie 19 Jun 2018

Global Forest Watch offers mapping and data visualization fellowships

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 May 2018

Fishing gear poses the greatest danger to young great whites off the West Coast of the U.S.

John Cannon 22 May 2018

Longest recorded whale shark migration eclipses 20,000 kilometers

Mongabay.com 14 May 2018

UN forest accounting loophole allows CO2 underreporting by EU, UK, US

Justin Catanoso 2 May 2018

One-stop shop for digital global maps launched

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Apr 2018

Palm oil supplier to food giants clears forest, peatland in Indonesia, Greenpeace says

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2018

New remote-sensing technique used to determine carbon losses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2018

Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map

Lalini Pedris 26 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

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

Claire Asher 22 Feb 2018

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

John Cannon 5 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

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

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

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