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

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

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

  • climate
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Paris Agreement

Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Narrow Traffic Lanes Make Cities Safer

  • cities
  • health and road safety
  • road safety
  • traffic
  • transport
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  • cities
  • health and road safety
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Women’s Leadership: Critical to Securing the Paris Agreement; Essential to Fulfilling It

  • climate
  • climate agreement
  • COP
  • gender
  • human rights
  • climate
  • climate agreement
  • COP
  • gender
  • human rights
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Solving the Fresh Water Crisis

  • equity
  • gender
  • urban development
  • water
  • water risk
  • equity
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  • water
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If You Care About the Environment, You Should Care About Gender

  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • gender
  • human rights
  • Forests & Land Use
  • Climate
  • gender
  • human rights

We Know How Forests Changed this Month, Thanks to New Satellite Alerts

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

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

  • emissions
  • fire
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Haze
  • Indonesia forest fires
Singapore during the 2013 haze crisis. Photo by Choo Yut Shing/Flickr.
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  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Haze
  • Indonesia forest fires

Brazil and Indonesia Struggling to Reduce Deforestation

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  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
Cleared rainforest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo by Rainforest Action Network/Flickr
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)

Counting Trees to Save the Woods: Using Big Data to Map Deforestation

  • Climate
  • climate
  • climate change
  • climate data
  • deforestation
  • forest restoration
  • forests
  • 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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  • climate data
  • deforestation
  • forest restoration
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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
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High-Resolution Satellites Help Monitor and Respond to Fires in Southeast Asia

  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
Forest fire in Indonesia. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires

Cultivating Accountability in REDD+

  • Brazil
  • degraded land
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • REDD
While the struggle to protect the Tripa peat forest will likely continue, it illustrates a positive message for Indonesia’s forests. Photo credit: CIFOR/Flickr
  • Brazil
  • degraded land
  • forests
  • Indonesia
  • REDD

4 Reasons Assessing Governance Matters for Forests and People

  • forests
  • governance
  • REDD
  • transparency
Conducting an analysis of governance strengths and weaknesses can be a critical first step towards advancing forest governance reforms. Photo credit: World Bank/Flickr
  • forests
  • governance
  • REDD
  • transparency

New High-Resolution Forest Maps Reveal World Loses 50 Soccer Fields of Trees Per Minute

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  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
  • monitoring
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
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