May 11, 2012
- Satellite tracking technology has revealed new insights into the behavior of manta rays, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The findings are published in this week's issue of the journal PLoS.
April 18, 2012
- NASA researchers have released a Google Earth version of a map showing the height of the world's forests.
April 14, 2012
- The population of emperor penguins in Antarctica is nearly twice as high as previously estimated according to a new satellite-based assessment.
March 27, 2012
- Satellite data from NASA confirms that fires are burning in an orangutan hotspot slated for conversion to oil palm plantations.
March 19, 2012
- A NASA funded expedition using airborne lasers to study ancient Mayan ruins has also documented widespread illegal deforestation in the Caracol Archaeological Reserve. The lasers found that forest disturbance was actually 58 percent greater than recent satellite surveys showed, according new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Society (TCS). Such deforestation not only imperils biodiversity, carbon storage, and migration routes for Central American species, but...