The Digital Ocean: Our Next Information Frontier

Via Scientific American, interesting commentary on the need for an information superhighway of the seas:

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Google Earth Update Shows How Climate Change Has Morphed Our Planet

Via Popular Science, a report on how a recent Google Earth update shows how climate change has morphed our planet:

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Using Satellites To Help Cut Down Illegal Fishing

Via the Christian Science Monitor, an article on a new approach to monitor waters for illegal fishing:

Environmentalists hope a new

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Five Technologies That Help Thwart Illegal Logging

Via the World Resources Institute, a report on new technology that can be used to help preserve forests:

The illegal timber trade creates problems for everyone.
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How Satellites and Big Data Can Help to Save the Oceans

Courtesy of Yale's e360, a look at how - with new marine protected areas and an emerging U.N. treaty - global ocean conservation efforts are on the verge of a major advance. But to enforce

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Can Satellites Help Save The World’s Tigers From Extinction?

Via GreenBiz, an interesting

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New technical innovations such as location-tracking devices, GPS and satellite communications, remote sensors, laser-imaging technologies, light detection and ranging” (LIDAR) sensing, high-resolution satellite imagery, digital mapping, advanced statistical analytical software and even biotechnology and synthetic biology are revolutionizing conservation in two key ways: first, by revealing the state of our world in unprecedented detail; and, second, by making available more data to more people in more places. The mission of this blog is to track these technical innovations that may give conservation the chance – for the first time – to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. It will also examine the unintended consequences and moral hazards that the use of these new tools may cause.Read More