💧🌏 Greg CocksNov 26
Surface Water Transitions 1984–2022 - A Global Dataset at Annual Resolution
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06013-5 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #hydrospatial #globe #global #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GIS #spatial #mapping #watertransition #river #stream #lake #coast #coastal #landsat #timeseries #WCD #WTTD #OTSU #NDWI #landuse #landcover #NLDI #soil #vegetation #forest #urban #industrial #advance #recession #wetland #engineered #agriculture #floodplain #deforestration #reservior #delta #model #modeling #surfacewater #change #seasonal #climate #annual #historic #recenthistory #waterresources #watermanagement #watersecurity
💧🌏 Greg CocksNov 13
Combining Remote Sensing With Local Knowledge Is Vital For Understanding Forest Change In West Africa
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-23133-5 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #tropical #forest #Africa #satellite #vegetation #ontheground #localobservations #WestAfrica #community #crowdsourcing #Landsat #spatialanalysis #household #surveys #localknowledge #integration #forestcover #deforestration #regrowth #convergence #limitations #imagery #spatiotemporal #Togo #Benin #Nigeria #Cameroon
💧🌏 Greg CocksSep 28, 2024
End Of An Era – Historic Landsat 7 Mission Takes Final Images
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-historic-landsat-7-mission-takes-final-images <-- shared USGS technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #landsat #remotesensing #landsat7 #history #mission #landsat8 #landsat9 #landsatnext #imagery #satellite #landuse #water #hydrology #disasters #ecology #ecosystems #climatechange #deforestration #urbangrowth #wildfires #monitoring #agriculture #waterresources #change #forest #vegetation #snow #ice #glaciers
@USGS
End of an era: Historic Landsat 7 mission takes final images | U.S. Geological Survey

RESTON, Va. — After more than 132,000 trips around the Earth and more than 3.3 million satellite images under its belt, the work of the Landsat 7 satellite is complete, even as the Landsat science mission continues with newer satellites.

ScienceCommunicatorFeb 9, 2024

Mongabay - News & information from natures frontline.

‘Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate https://news.mongabay.com/2024/01/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-book-assumptions-omissions-spark-debate/

Excellent podcast discussion featuring Hannah Ritchie, the author of the 'Not the End of the World' book, & Rachel Donald's incisive questions.

#climate #ClimateChange #degrowth #technology #politics #economy #deforestration #science

‘It’s Not the End of the World’ book assumptions & omissions spark debate

The head of research at online publication Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie, joins the Mongabay Newscast to discuss her new “radically hopeful” read, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. While containing a hopeful array of technological advancements and potential fixes to many […]

Mongabay Environmental News
scientistOct 27, 2023

The Global Greenwash #Economy

1. The government or business advertisers that it's "carbon neutral" or "climate neutral" because it uses "carbon credits" to "offset" greenhouse gas emissions.

2. But, more often than not, the "carbon credits" claim is found out later to be bogus.

#Corruption is the norm when the underlying motive is money

Exposing #UN #Greenwashing | Jacob Goldberg https://www.planetcritical.com/p/exposing-un-greenwashing#details

#business #money #politics #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #deforestration #pollution

Exposing UN Greenwashing | Jacob Goldberg

Listen now | UN carbon credit projects linked to protest and devastation

Planet: Critical
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.socialSep 5, 2023

"Three helicopters, a dozen vehicles and a heavily armed corps of police and environment rangers are carrying out the cattle drive, which criminal gangs attempted to block by setting fires on the route, destroying bridges and intimidating drivers." #AmazonForest

#Brazil launches biggest ever operation against illegal cattle farms in #Amazon | #DeForestration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/brazil-launches-biggest-operation-illegal-cattle-farms-amazon

Brazil launches biggest operation against illegal cattle farms in indigenous Amazon

Taskforce deployed to remove thousands of cows owned by land grabbers from indigenous territory

The Guardian
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.socialAug 7, 2023

"Representatives from #Bolivia, #Brazil, #Colombia, #Ecuador, #Guyana, #Peru, #Suriname and #Venezuela will join the two-day meeting of the #Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (#ACTO), which kicks off on Tuesday in the northern Brazilian city of Belem." #ClimateCrisis #RainForests #DeForestration

Brazil hosting #AmazonSummit: What you need to know | Environment News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/7/brazil-hosting-amazon-summit-what-you-need-to-know

Brazil hosting Amazon summit: What you need to know

Leaders are gathering in Brazil to discuss ways to protect critical rainforest after years of deforestation and threats.

Al Jazeera
Kim PeralesJul 7, 2023
Encouraging: Deforestation in the Amazon has dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro. While the data is an encouraging sign for President Lula, who campaigned on pledges to rein in illegal logging, officials stressed that challenges remain. #Environment #Deforestration #ClimateCrisis https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deforestation-amazon-dropped-34-reversing-trend-bolsonaro-rcna92988?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_lw
Deforestation in the Amazon has dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro

After four years of rising destruction in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation dropped by 33.6% during the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, according to government satellite data released Thursday.

NBC News
MikeFJun 3, 2023

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

"Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.

Chronicling the efforts of nine Amazonian countries to curb deforestation, this edition provides an overview of the topics most relevant to the conservation of the region’s biodiversity, ecosystem services and Indigenous cultures, as well as a description of the conventional and sustainable development models that are vying for space within the regional economy."

https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/book-a-perfect-storm-in-the-amazon/

#climatechange #climatejustice #Deforestration #Amazon #biodiversity #biodiversitydecline

Book: A perfect storm in the Amazon

Today, Mongabay launches a digital version of the book, A Perfect Storm in the Amazon, by Timothy J. Killeen, an academic and expert who, since the 1980s, has studied the taxonomy of the rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia, where he lived for more than 35 years. In 2023, Mongabay will publish it in short installments, […]

Mongabay Environmental News
MikeFJun 2, 2023

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/more-than-800m-amazon-trees-felled-in-six-years-to-meet-beef-demand

#climatechange #climatejustice #Deforestration #Amazon

More than 800m Amazon trees felled in six years to meet beef demand

Investigation involving Guardian shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming in Brazil

The Guardian