Via Outside Magazine, a brief look at the convergence of big data and conservation:

Poaching is big business, with black-market elephant tusks bringing in $30,000 and rhino horns fetching $300,000.  But conservationists are fighting back with an arsenal of increasingly effective high tech weapons.

Courtesy of The Verge, a look at Global Fishing Watch, a new initiative to provide insight into the growing fisheries crisis:

Environmental groups have

Via the Smithsonian Magazine, an interesting report on the use of aerial imagery to scan aerial imagery and pinpoint the locations of fracking wastewater ponds in Pennsylvania:

Via New York Magazine, a profile of an interesting company Planet Labs:

Via GreenBiz, a look at eight ways big data is helping improve global water and food security:

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Via Nature, an interesting report on use of technology to monitor the Tibetan Plateau: