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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

Latam Eco Review: Paddington Bear Captured on Camera in Peru

Mongabay.com 15 Jun 2018
The Carnegie Airborne Observatory off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Image by Eddie Roqueta for Mongabay.

Super plane, satellites help map the Caribbean’s hidden coral reefs

Alex Fox 8 Jun 2018
Planet satellite image of coral off Belize's Lighthouse Reef. Taken March 28, 2018.

A global coral reef monitoring system is coming soon

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jun 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

Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rachel Fritts 6 Apr 2018
Intact palm swamp along a rainforest lake in southeastern Peru. Miners seek gold in the sediments, cutting trees and inputting harmful mercury into waters to identify the tiny gold pieces in the soil.

Radar returns to remote sensing through free, near-real-time global imagery

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 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

How effective is environmental restoration?

Mike Gaworecki 6 Mar 2018
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

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

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

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