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Researchers Across Academia are Generating Ground-breaking Discoveries with Planet Data

Planet Pulse

In the hands of these experts, our satellite data is helping to power models, reveal planetary change, and deliver spatial-temporal insights across a variety of academic fields. PlanetScope has great advantages with high observation frequency and 3 meter spatial resolution compared with other MS optical satellites.

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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. Forest loss has only accelerated since the 2014 United Nations climate summit, when a collection of multinational food companies and governments committed to stop it entirely.

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Measuring War’s Effect on a Global Breadbasket

Planet Pulse

Earth observation data can serve as a powerful tool for increasing peace and security because of the enhanced situational awareness it provides. For more than a decade, Becker-Reshef and other NASA-funded scientists have been developing innovative satellite-based techniques to monitor commodity crops such as wheat and maize in Ukraine.

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A Poisoned Chalice: Curious case of glamour and deterioration of Punjab post Green Revolution

The Environmental Blog

It gave rise to an era of unprecedented groundwater pumping fueled by free and subsidized electricity. Soon Punjab started facing a new gamut of problems like deteriorating soil health, pest-infested crops and over exploitation of ground water resulting in disastrous consequences. samples analysed.

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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2014, 71% of respondents were worried about the damage humans had caused to our planet. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Energy Star.

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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

DeSmogBlog

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.