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Google’s Earth Engine to help tropical countries monitor forests

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Dec 2009

Global forest map moves forward

Rhett Ayers Butler 11 Dec 2009

Google Earth to monitor deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2009

Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2009

Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

Rhett Ayers Butler 29 Nov 2009

Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

Sarah Monaghan 22 Nov 2009

Google partners with Amazon tribe

Mongabay.com 29 Oct 2009

Satellite lasers show melting of Greenland, Antarctic worse than expected

Jeremy Hance 23 Sep 2009

Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Sep 2009
U.S.-based Cargill corporation burns large areas of Amazon rainforest in norther Pará state to prepare for soya plantations in 2003. Image by Daniel Beltrá/Greenpeace

20% of land deforested in the Brazilian Amazon is regrowing forest

Mongabay.com, Rhett Ayers Butler 6 Sep 2009

Northern India’s water is vanishing due to agriculture, human consumption

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2009

NASA photos show severe flooding in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 22 Jul 2009

NASA satellite photos reveal Yellowstone’s recovery from fires

Mongabay.com 30 Jun 2009

NASA images show huge drop in Amazon fires in 2008

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jun 2009

Rainforest discovered via Google Earth to be protected

Mongabay.com 29 Jun 2009

Photo: guano stains helps researchers track penguins by satellite

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2009

NASA photos reveal destruction of 99% of rainforest park in Rwanda

Mongabay.com 9 Jun 2009

Development of Google Earth a watershed moment for the environment

Rhett Ayers Butler 31 Mar 2009

Advancements in satellite technology will help scientists and policy makers map and monitor forest carbon

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2009

37,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008

Rhett Ayers Butler 19 Mar 2009

Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite crashes immediately after launch

Mongabay.com 24 Feb 2009

Google Earth now allows ocean exploration, tracking of sharks

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2009

New global temperature record expected in the next 1-2 years

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2009

Symposium tackles big question: how many species will survive our generation

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2009

Selective logging occurs in 28 percent of world’s rainforests

Jeremy Hance 13 Jan 2009

Photos: Google Earth used to find new species

Rhett Ayers Butler 22 Dec 2008

Rainforest canopy-penetrating technology gets boost for forest carbon monitoring

Mongabay.com 4 Dec 2008

Palm oil companies propose satellite monitoring of their plantations to ensure sustainability

Mongabay.com 5 Nov 2008

Brazil to have high resolution imagery for 86% of the Amazon by year end

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2008

Arctic sea ice falls to second lowest on record

Mongabay.com 16 Sep 2008

NASA: Sea ice melt opens the Northwest and Northeast Passage

Mongabay.com 9 Sep 2008

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