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The Philippines launched one of the world's largest reforestation efforts. But satellite data and field reports raise questions: Is the program really restoring forests?
As Israel expands its settlements in the West Bank, it has destroyed forests and boosted CO2 emissions. Haitham Al-Sharif This story is part of The 89 Percent Project of the global journalism ...
With D.C. seeing more heat waves every year, climate change experts predict that by the 2050s the District is in store for 30 to 40 extreme heat days each year with temperatures cresting 95 degrees.
Australia’s biggest lake is believed to have reached capacity on only three occasions in the past 160 years, but the mass of ...
Whether it's from a classroom globe or one of NASA's stunning satellite images ... 89 per cent of the surface is covered by ocean and only 11 per cent by land. Presented with a baffling view of this ...
Los Angeles is unique in its proximity to many peaceful backpacking campsites that are under an hour's drive away. We picked ...
Above: Satellite view of the Great Lakes on a recent clear day (December 22, 2019), showing less than 2% overall ice cover, about normal for this point in the winter, mainly in Green Bay and ...
The satellite gives researchers a multidimensional view of water levels, which they can use to calculate, for instance, the slope of a wave or eddy. This in turn yields information on the amount ...
Read more: Green energy: South Africa's transition plan ... and renewable energy transitions, we noticed that satellite imagery showed that some parts of South Africa were still brightly lit ...
For the second time in six months, SpaceX will deploy a US military satellite that was sitting in storage, waiting for a slot on United Launch Alliance's launch schedule. Space Systems Command ...
A cautionary tale for Labour’s potential 12 new towns is that of Northstowe, a new town north of Cambridge – Britain’s ...
Satellite imagery released by Maxar Technologies revealed detailed visual evidence of the destruction caused by Operation Sindoor, the unprecedented mission in which airstrikes, precise, pre ...