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September 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above
Scientists have used satellites to track the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest for several decades — enough time to see some remarkable shifts in the pace and location of clearing.
Read the articleSeptember 21, 2026 · 4 min read
Faster Detection of Forest Loss
NASA scientists developed a new method for tracking tropical forest loss that delivers deforestation alerts more than three months faster than current methods.
Read the articleSeptember 19, 2026 · 4 min read
Landsat 9 Serves as Backbone of Efforts to Reduce Deforestation and Forest Degradation
The launch of Landsat 9 and its extension of the program's nearly 50-year record of Earth surface change will help ensure the stability of efforts to monitor deforestation and forest degradation.
Read the articleSeptember 17, 2026 · 4 min read
Staying Alert: How a New Landsat-Based Tool Spots Deforestation
A Landsat-based alert system from Global Forest Watch lets anyone with an Internet connection be alerted to forest loss smaller than a football field, almost every week.
Read the articleSeptember 15, 2026 · 3 min read
World of Change: Amazon Deforestation
Rondônia, in western Brazil, has become one of the most deforested parts of the Amazon. Satellite images show a predictable pattern: roads first, then the "fishbone".
Read the articleSeptember 13, 2026 · 3 min read
NASA Releases Breakthrough Forest Biomass-Carbon Product
NASA's GEDI mission released the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest biomass and the carbon it stores — filling a key gap in climate research.
Read the articleSeptember 11, 2026 · 2 min read
Converting Savannahs into Soybeans
Brazil's cerrado has long been labeled the world's most biologically rich savannah. Over the past decades, much of it has been plowed under to make room for soybeans.
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