Making Big Ideas Happen

Resources

Tags

Mapping, Management, and Mitigation: How Peatlands Can Advance Climate Action in Southeast Asia

  • climate
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Mapping
  • peat
  • peatland
Despite playing a major role in climate action, peatlands have been deforested and drained for agricultural lands. Photo credit: Nanang Sujana/CIFOR
  • climate
  • Indonesian Peat Prize
  • Mapping
  • peat
  • peatland

Collaboration on Nature-Based Solutions is Key to Resilient City Infrastructure

  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • urban development
Departments that work together on projects and use natural infrastructure, like the Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park in Singapore, can achieve a variety of benefits. Photo by Stefano/Flickr.
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • urban development
Insights

The Ocean Genome Helps Fight Disease: Here's How We Save It

  • conservation
  • coronavirus
  • equity
  • international climate policy
  • oceans
Ocean ecosystems are rich sources of compounds used in medicine. Photo by Bob Embley/NOAA.
  • conservation
  • coronavirus
  • equity
  • international climate policy
  • oceans

The World Lost a Belgium-sized Area of Primary Rainforests Last Year

  • deforestation
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping
Primary rainforests are critically important for storing carbon and providing habitat for jaguars, orangutans, gorillas and other animals. Photo by stokpic/Pixabay
  • deforestation
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping

Competing with Rapidity: Forests Monitoring System to Combat Deforestation in Aceh

  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • hutan
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • hutan
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
Insights

First-Ever GFW Tech Fellowship Now Open for Applications

  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)

Global Forest Watch GLAD Alerts Help Protect Sumatra’s Leuser Rainforest Ecosystem

  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)

Power Plants Use Water, But We Have No Idea How Much

  • Climate
  • coal
  • Mapping
  • oil and gas
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress
  • Climate
  • coal
  • Mapping
  • oil and gas
  • water
  • water risk
  • water stress

Integrating Public Transport Networks to Overcome Jakarta Traffic Congestion

  • cities
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • transportation
  • cities
  • sustainable cities
  • sustainable cities initiative
  • transportation
Insights

Visualizing a Warmer World: 10 Maps of Climate Vulnerability

  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • local impacts
  • Mapping
  • adaptation
  • climate change
  • local impacts
  • Mapping
Life at WRI Indonesia

Women and 3D Mock-Up

  • Climate
  • forests
  • gender
  • Mapping
  • Life at WRI Indonesia
  • Climate
  • forests
  • gender
  • Mapping
  • Life at WRI Indonesia

5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • Mapping
  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • indigenous people
  • land rights
  • land tenure
  • Mapping

Places to Watch: 5 Forests at Risk This Month

  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Mapping

3 Ways Governments Can Prevent Fake Data on Forests

  • data
  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Mapping
  • data
  • deforestasi
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • Mapping

Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016

  • fire
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
  • fire
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)

Technical Blog: Caveats to the 2016 Tree Cover Loss Data, Explained

  • deforestation
  • forest
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Pengawasan Hutan Global (GFW)

Opposing a Contempt of State with One Map

  • forest
  • Mapping
  • forest
  • Mapping
  • deforestation
  • forest
  • Mapping
  • water
  • water risk