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Logging for the purpose of clearing land for agriculture continues to threaten the Brazilian rainforest. (Image courtesy of the United Nations Environment Programme, USGS, and NASA).

The Road to Recovery

According to a recent report in Science, the Amazon rain forest has lost nearly two million acres to logging each year since 1996.
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July 28, 2020
Tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, and is typically grown on massive plantations such as this one in Munnar, India.

The Price of Tea

Satellites help make a satisfying brew.
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July 28, 2020
The image above shows AVHRR vegetation index for May 11-20, 1998

The NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program

The business of data management has been transformed in the last decade—and not solely by computational progress.
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July 28, 2020
The icon of the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project

The Magic of Water

Soil moisture is one of the components of land-surface evapotranspiration, and is a required parameter for evaporation calculations.
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July 28, 2020
This false-color SeaWiFS image, acquired on October 6, 2002, shows a phytoplankton bloom off the California coast.

The Incredible Glowing Algae

Phytoplankton blooms occur in all the Earth’s oceans when nutrient and sunlight conditions are right.
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July 28, 2020
Prairie dogs, lemurs, and mandrinette hibiscus plants are just a few of the species affected by human activity.

The Human Footprint

Increased human population often leads to greater influence on the environment and sharper declines in species and ecosystems.
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July 28, 2020
The image above shows part of the Gridded Population of the World (GPW) collection from SEDAC in 2000.

The Human Equation

Hunting for elusive answers to a multitude of questions about humanity's role in global climate change.
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July 28, 2020
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