Neotropical Cloud Forests to Lose What Most Defines Them: Clouds
April 17, 2019
If greenhouse gas emissions continue increasing as they have been, 90% of Western Hemisphere cloud forests would be affected as early as 2060.
If greenhouse gas emissions continue increasing as they have been, 90% of Western Hemisphere cloud forests would be affected as early as 2060.
An international team used classical glaciological field observations combined with a wealth of information from various satellite missions to painstakingly calculate how much ice has been lost or gained by 19 different glacierized regions around the world.
Remarkably little is known about the subsurface connections between the thousands of lakes scattered across ecoregions like Yukon Flats; this study sheds light on those lakes.
The first comprehensive assessment of glacier mass loss for all regions in western North America (excluding Alaskan glaciers) suggests that ice masses throughout western North America are in significant decline.
Antarctica experienced a sixfold increase in yearly ice mass loss between 1979 and 2017.
Scientists are now able to determine what penguins are eating from space.
Fires play an important role in regulating forest density, vegetation water use, and runoff.
Iceberg A-68 calved from the Larsen C during a period of larger then average tidal cycles.
New detailed NASA maps of ice velocity and elevation show that a group of glaciers spanning one-eighth of East Antarctica’s coast have begun to lose ice over the past decade, hinting at widespread changes in the ocean.
“Great insight comes from thinking in multi-sensor and using several constellations together.”
Stanford research shows the drying trend in Canada’s Peace-Athabasca Delta is linked to the long-term decline in populations of the semi-aquatic muskrat.
The patterns of large-scale tropical deforestation endure across landscapes, even after more than a half-century of tropical rainforest expansion and growth.
Researchers have succeeded in producing distribution maps for a selection of important tropical tree species in Peruvian lowland Amazonia.
Multi-year comparison of Landsat images can unmask previously unknown geography.
Carbon in Alaska’s North Slope tundra ecosystems spends about 13 percent less time locked in frozen soil than it did 40 years ago.
The 2014 megafires in Canada’s Northwest Territories burned 7 million acres of forest, making it one of the most severe fire events in Canadian history.
As global temperatures rise, melting permafrost is expected to cause more frequent and hazardous landslides.
SDSU post-doc Pedro Oliveira is integrating remote sensing data from airborne LiDAR and Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 satellites to map the height of the Brazilian Amazon forest canopy.
This is the first study to document more than three decades of land and water changes across Alaska.
Using a quarter century of Landsat data, geospatial researchers have mapped and modeled how vegetation responds to water availability across the entire Murray-Darling Basin.
Using Landsat 8 satellite images from 2014 to 2016, researchers have discerned when the lakes on Greenland’s Petermann ice tongue formed, their movement, and changes in surface extent across time.
Geophysicists examining glacier changes in the Russian Arctic have found that the rate of ice mass loss has nearly doubled over the last decade when compared to records from the previous 60 years.
Patrick Hostert from the University of Berlin discusses the value of Landsat’s long archive to studying phenology.
Scientists at Berkeley Lab have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico’s forests with the help of Google Earth Engine and Landsat 8.
A NASA study based on an innovative technique for crunching torrents of satellite data provides the clearest picture yet of changes in Antarctic ice flow into the ocean.
Tropical peatland can be mapped accurately using freely-available remote sensing data and open source software.
Revealing the dynamic nature of glaciers.
Glaciers have been receeding rapidly in many parts of the world, including New Zealand.
Elmore delves into the changing phenology of forests and how that impacts the amount of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.
Modeling the aboveground biomass and carbon of tidal marshes across the U.S.
Using Landsat 8’s thermal data to monitor calving events in Antarctica.
Using Landsat data from 1984-2014 to investigate the blue carbon change in Louisiana’s coastal marshes.
Researchers used a time series of data from Landsat satellites to quantify areas burned or harvested across Canada.
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