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Agriculture Is Taking Over Grasslands, Wetlands and Other Overlooked Ecosystems

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What's the Climate Cost of Growing Crops?

Updated Tool Can Help US Communities Include Forests and Trees in GHG Inventories

New Tool Reveals Likely Causes of Ecosystem Disturbances Worldwide

Land Use Changed the Climate. Now Climate’s Changing the Land

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How UNESCO is Using Emissions Data to Help Safeguard World Heritage Forest Carbon Sinks

AI for Nature: How AI Can Democratize and Scale Action on Nature | World Resources Institute

Video Story: High-Resolution Data Helps Restoration Practitioners Monitor Tree Planting Success and Impact

AI, Meet Nature — From Land & Carbon Lab Director Craig Mills

WATCH: AI, Meet Nature - a new era in planetary intelligence

New Global Data Provides the Best View Yet of Vegetation Height Outside of Forests

Could AI Unlock Finance for Nature Restoration?

Tracking the Health of Earth’s Ecosystems with New Global Productivity Data

How UNESCO is Using Emissions Data to Help Safeguard World Heritage Forest Carbon Sinks

A New Satellite Data App Supports Better Monitoring of European Forests

World’s Forest Carbon Sink Shrank to its Lowest Point in at Least 2 Decades, Due to Fires and Persistent Deforestation

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Bridging global goals and regional realities in Colombia

Innovative Data Detects Disturbances in Near-Real-Time for All the World's Vegetated Land

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Protecting Naturally Regenerating Forests is a Crucial — and Overlooked — Climate Solution

New Data Shows What’s Driving Forest Loss Around the World

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New Research Aligns Country and Global Satellite Data for Improved Forest Carbon Reporting

Grasslands Are Some of Earth’s Most Underrated Ecosystems

Mapping the World’s Trees in Unprecedented Detail with AI

How Land & Carbon Lab is Monitoring Land’s GHG Impacts

Fires Drove Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024 | World Resources Institute Research

Addressing non-forest ecosystem conversion in Australia through collaboration

What Are AI Foundation Models and How Are They Innovating Land and Carbon Monitoring?

How Rethinking ‘What Is a Forest’ Can Result in More Effective Conservation

Consortium Produces Groundbreaking Data to Help Protect Grasslands

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IMPACT: How Local Restoration Champions in Africa Are Using Data to Drive Change

Natural Lands Map Provides Baseline for Companies’ No Conversion Targets

WEBINAR: Transforming Near-Real-Time Vegetation Monitoring with DIST-ALERT and Global Forest Watch

New Data Shows Where, and How Much, Crops are Produced Around the World

SCIENCE: Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps

New Data Provides First Global Annual Picture of Cultivated and Natural Grasslands

Updated Tool Can Help US Communities Include Forests and Trees in GHG Inventories

Global Land Cover Maps’ Accuracy and Applications Explained

WATCH: Nature Hub at Climate Week NYC: Harnessing AI and Satellite Monitoring for a Nature-Positive Future

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WATCH THE RECORDING: Using Open-Source AI to Map the World’s Forests

Using Artificial Intelligence to Map the Earth’s Forests

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Innovative New Data Detects Disturbances in Near-Real-Time for All the World's Vegetated Land

The Global Land Squeeze: How to Manage Growing Competition for Land

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