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No Service? No Problem. Bringing Online Forest Monitoring Tools Offline and Into the Field

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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)

Intact Forest Landscapes Matter for Climate Change. Here Are 3 Reasons Why.

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  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Paris Agreement
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Narrow Traffic Lanes Make Cities Safer

  • cities
  • health and road safety
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Reflections on Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Change Film, Before the Flood

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  • corporate sustainability
  • deforestation
  • Indonesia
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Linking Products to Places: The Initiatives Working to End Deforestation

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Harvesting logs in Malaysia. Photo by Wakx/Flickr
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We Know How Forests Changed this Month, Thanks to New Satellite Alerts

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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
Peru's Cordillera Azul National Park. Photo by Tadd and Debbie Ottman/Wikimedia Commons
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)

Indonesian Fires Create “Hazardous” Levels of Air Pollution in Singapore

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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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Singapore during the 2013 haze crisis. Photo by Choo Yut Shing/Flickr.
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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Brazil and Indonesia Struggling to Reduce Deforestation

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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
Cleared rainforest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rainforest Action Network/Flickr
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Supporting the New Climate Agreement: A Checklist for Business

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Extending Indonesia’s Forest Moratorium Is a Win for Business

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  • economy
  • forests
  • Indonesia
A young orangutan in central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Terry Sunderland/CIFOR
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  • economy
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Counting Trees to Save the Woods: Using Big Data to Map Deforestation

  • Climate
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  • climate change
  • climate data
  • deforestation
  • forest restoration
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
What can other big data initiatives seeking to combat climate change learn from Global Forest Watch? Photo credit: CIAT/Flickr
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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High-Resolution Satellites Help Monitor and Respond to Fires in Southeast Asia

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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
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Forest fire in Indonesia. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
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New High-Resolution Forest Maps Reveal World Loses 50 Soccer Fields of Trees Per Minute

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3 Ways to Achieve Zero Tropical Deforestation by 2020

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  • forest restoration
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  • Indonesia
  • Lacey Act
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Deforestation is often associated with commodity production in Indonesia. Credit: Agung Prasetyo/CIFOR
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Asia Pulp & Paper's Anti-Deforestation Pledge: Sign of a Changing Industry?

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Asia Pulp & Paper committed to stop cutting down natural forests in Indonesia. Photo credit: netaholic13/Flickr
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Risk Free? Paper and the Lacey Act

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Test results demonstrate that it is possible to detect potential Lacey violations for paper, thanks to modern technology.
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