Predicting the Future of Wildfires? It’s Complicated
This week, many large media platforms ran front-page or lead stories on the launch of Fire Factor, a new wildfire prediction tool by First Street Foundation that lets property owners look up [...]
SIG works with Google and other partners on new tools that democratize offline mapping
Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) contributed to a fascinating mapping project described in a new post on the Google Earth and Earth Engine Medium page. Google partnered with CIAT, [...]
Mapping Forest Degradation in Nepal with Remote Sensing
Under international climate change agreements, countries must estimate greenhouse gas emissions related to deforestation and forest degradation. In cases of deforestation—when trees are cut and [...]
Can You Fight Climate Change by Burning Wood? It’s Complicated
Wood grown in the United States is being ground up, dried out, pressed into pellets, and shipped to Europe, where power plants burn it to make electricity. Is this good for the planet? The [...]
Pyregence Launches New Forecasting Tool for Tracking Active Fire Spread
As we speak, firefighters in Northern California are battling hundreds of blazes across 775,000 acres, sparked by dry lightning strikes. Unfortunately, disastrous wildfire seasons in our state [...]
WITH BIOMASS ENERGY, THE CARBON SAVINGS ARE IN THE DETAILS
Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore has been in the news again of late, this time for his newest documentary, Planet of the Humans. The film has been criticized widely for its selective [...]
Simple Tech for Land Management: Training Local Users For Faster, Cost-Effective Results
Imagine walking into the small wooden building that serves as the home and office of a tribal community leader in a remote village in Vietnam. One of the last things you might expect to see would [...]
Forest Carbon Markets: Native People Quantify the Growing Value of Native Lands
Carbon markets are based on the premise that sources (greenhouse gas-emitting power plants, vehicles, farm animal waste) and sinks (greenhouse gas-absorbing forests, biogas digesters, healthy [...]
The Sustainable Orinoco Pact Sponsors Initiatives Fair on Sustainable Development-Villavicencio, Colombia
The Sustainable Orinoco Pact sponsored a one-day Initiatives Fair just outside of the region’s major city Villavicencio yesterday. The event brought together several organizations and [...]
SERVIR-Amazonia Brings Data to the Ground for Better Decision-Making in the Amazon
Followers of environmental issues in the Amazon scarcely go a week without seeing news about threats to the biome. The region has been devastated with countless and constant hazards. For example, [...]
