Blog Posts: Mapping

Southeast Asia is home to over 54% of the world’s peatlands — tropical wetlands that have a major role to play in climate action. However, around 25 million hectares of tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia have been deforested and drained over the last three decades alone, and only 6% of peatlands remain untouched. One of the main strategies to monitor and maintain peatlands is mapping. This helps ensure experts know where peatlands are and can accurately monitor changes in peatland conditions to help avoid degradation and effectively plan any necessary restoration. In Southeast Asia, not all countries have developed peat maps to support peatland management. New and advanced satellite-based peat mapping methods can help.

Primary or old-growth rainforests store more carbon than other kinds of forests and provide homes for jaguars, orangutans, gorillas and other important species. So the fact that the world lost 3.6 million hectares of these forests in 2018 is a huge problem.

Power plants use a lot of water for cooling, but most don't disclose how much. A new WRI methodology calculates their thirst by using Google Earth images.

From crop fields in the Iberian Peninsula to city streets in the southern United States, all communities will feel the effects of a warmer world. Here's a visual look at what the future holds for five regions.

How is the position of women in Kenegerian Gajah Bertalut today? Is the establishment of a political power based on a nation state (kingdom/republic) that places men in a privileged position, affecting women's access in the public spaces? Read more in this article.

Indigenous Peoples and local communities are some of the best environmental stewards. Five maps illustrate just how critical indigenous and community lands are to the planet.

Deforestation from road building or expanding plantations isn’t typically spotted until a sizable patch of land disappears. But now satellites are watching.

Countries considering open data policies have to guard against falsification and misuse, but there are clear ways to avoid these problems.

Taking the Ministry of Environment and Forestry’s (MOEF) civil servant investigators (PPNS) hostage is a form of contempt of state. Such incident reflects our weak land use management.

Drought in Sao Paulo. Flooding in the Himalayas. And pollution in Sumatra. These three distinct water crises have a common cause—degradation in forests.