Drones are costly and have the potential to invade privacy, but they can also make a massive impact on agriculture and biodiversity – so where is the drone industry headed?
Read on
Climate Change and green growth are at the top of the natural resource development agenda of many developing countries, the latter a means to foster economic growth and development while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which our well-being relies.
Read on
Forests in South East Asia are continuing to disappear due to unsustainable logging practices, shifting cultivation and infrastructure development. This means that the region is ripe for piloting mitigation activities through limiting deforestation and carbon storage from the forestry sector.
Read on
If someone asked you to name the top predator in North American forests, you might think of bears, or maybe great horned owls. But here’s another answer to think about: woodland salamanders.
To source
Four years after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, several species of wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico are still struggling to recover, according to a new report released today.
To source
Increased levels of poaching are driving rhinoceroses to the brink of extinction, and the effects of this permeate far deeper into our ecosystem than you may realise. Thankfully, a number of tech-based tools are on hand to fight for their cause.
Read on
Laos is rich in biodiversity. Its numerous landscapes range from mountainous areas to lowland plains. Laos is also a country rich in forest cover. Currently, 40 percent of the land area is covered by virgin forest, which is roughly classified into production, protection and conservation forest.
Read on
Snowy owls are among the largest birds in North America, but scientists know very little about their behavior. The owls spend most of their days far from humans, hunting rodents and birds in the flat expanses of the Arctic Circle. In the winter, the owls move south, but they don't usually reach the United States.
To source
Biodiversity offsets are a contentious tool in conservation. Yesterday the UK government announced it will push forward with biodiversity offsetting, despite more than 140 environment and development groups around the world condemning the practice.
Read on
Measuring the loss of evergreen forest cover in protected areas as well as deforestation in forest- rich countries such as those in Latin America has played a crucial role in climate change mitigation. How can forest cover change be measured? The use of nearly real-time remote sensing is an effective tool for detecting shifts in forest canopies and identifying protection levels.
Read on
Google Earth Outreach recently partnered with World Resources Institute, an online forest monitoring system, to launch Global Forest Watch, an online mapping initiative which provides near real-time data about deforestation.
Read on
Insect pollinators play a crucial role in food security and biodiversity and are already subject to increasingly harsh conditions – if these get any worse, numerous species could go suddenly extinct.
To source
The desert lives and breathes or so the saying goes. How exactly this occurs is not always clear so green designer, Shlomi Mir, is attempting to get the bottom of it all. To collect information and make predictions about the desert, Mir is looking to set some tech-charged tumbleweeds blowing across the land.
Read on
President Tommy Remengesau Jr. has declared the Pacific nation will ban commercial fishing. At a UN oceans conference, he declared that Palau's 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone will be a "100 per cent marine sanctuary" (see the map above).
To source
Genetically modified organisms rarely stay put, as we've seen in cases where organic farmers have found their crops cross-bred with GMOs. Pollen has many ways of getting around, including the honey bee.
To source
RESET.org
