The online Global Forest Watch platform provides open access to frequently updated satellite imagery to allow any user to monitor forest change in a given country or other area. Within an interactive ...

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World Resources Institute to map global forest carbon accumulation rates. “To accurately capture the carbon ...

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 ...

Global Forest Watch, a young online forest monitoring and alert system, provides free, near real-time data on deforestation and tree-cover loss around the world. It allows users to create customized ...

Trees don’t make work easy for the scientists who want to study them and the landscapes they create, since the leaves, fruits and flowers of a forest’s canopy generally stretch far above human reach.

To some forest creatures, a tree is a home. To scientists, it’s a beacon. A new way of mapping forests from the air by measuring chemical signatures of the tree canopy is revealing previously ...

Modeling and mapping fire-vulnerable forest vegetation across millions of acres in California, scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno are using a variety of new technologies with massive amounts ...

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For many conservation decisions, the most contested question is also the most basic: what belongs on ...

Mangroves are salt-tolerant plants found in intertidal areas throughout much of the world’s tropical and subtropical coastlines. Mangrove ecosystems are highly variable, ranging from sparse, stunted ...