It’s important to have accurate information on an area’s forest extent in order to properly protect forests and evaluate natural resources, conservation practices and environmental policies. But one ...

Nearly 75% of the world's coral reefs are under threat from global stressors such as climate change and local stressors such as overfishing and coastal development. Those working to understand and ...

Researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that ...

Researchers have generated a global coral reef extent map using a single methodology capable of predicting the location of shallow coral reefs with nearly 90% accuracy. Nearly 75% of the world's coral ...