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We’re used to seeing maps that show the rate and spread of deforestation, and impacts that this degradation has on climate change. The Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) has taken a different tact, along with partners, in their effort to map the opportunities for forest restoration. The global map shows lands with characteristics [...]
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There’s a very interesting opportunity for two-year postdoctoral fellows through a partnership between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Ecological Observing Network (NEON). The aim of the program is to build new capacity for the understanding of the interface between climate change and the impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, including the carbon [...]
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Canada, the United States, Russia, Denmark and Norway met this week in Canada to discuss cooperative agreements for shipping and mapping the region. The group reiterated the intent for orderly resolution of any possible overlapping claims for mineral and oil and gas right in the region. The five Arctic coast states also proposed creating an [...]
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In the president’s 2011 budget there’s a good deal of commitment to earth observation and climate change monitoring and modeling. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been allocated $2 billion ( 58 percent more than this year’s budget) for a decade-long project to launch earth observation satellites that focus on collecting climate measures. At [...]
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Now that COP 15 is over, with one of the only commitments made toward Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), the move is on to map and monitor forests. GIS has long played a role in forest measuring, assessment, monitoring, planning and management. With the embrace of REDD by the international community, and the [...]
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A government report from the Global Change Research Project was released yesterday, and it affirms that climate change from rising carbon dioxide levels is already having an impact on the United States. The report combines research on global change from multiple federal agencies, and outlines a long list of climate change impacts that are being [...]
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A coalition of energy companies, corporations, scientists, research institutions, and environmental groups have banded together to urge that global deforestation be addressed as part of pending climate legislation. While the focus of this effort is largely on international forests in developing nations, the aim is to encourage forest countries to adopt better management practices in [...]
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Thomas L. Friedman has another excellent op-ed piece in today’s New York Times titled, The Price is Not Right, that asserts that the meltdown in our financial and climate systems are due to inadequate pricing that doesn’t reflect risk or cost to the environment. This deficiency is particularly glaring in the price of energy where [...]
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A new government publication was made available this week to improve understanding of climate science. The new brochure was organized by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is endorsed by a number of federal agencies, science centers and associations. The booklet, Climate Literacy: The Essential Principles of Climate Science, is available online at: http://www.noaa.gov/climateliteracy.html [...]
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The Global e-Sustainability Initiative and the Climate Group recently released a report that outlines the unique ability of information technology to monitor and maximize energy efficiency. The report, “SMART 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age,” concludes that we could cut CO2 emissions by up to 7.8 gigatons by 2020, which is [...]
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