National Institute for Space Research

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Name: National Institute for Space Research
First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

ITTO project leads to significant new funds for Amazon forest monitoring

‘Training on forest monitoring at the Amazonian Regional Center of INPE in Belem, Brazil’ under ITTO project RED-PD 029/09 Rev.1 (F). Photo: Antonio MatamorosThe ITTO project on ‘Monitoring deforestation, logging and land use change in the Pan Amazonian ... [Published International Tropical Timber Organization - Jun 12 2013]
First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 1 reports
National Institute for Space Research
National Institute for Space Research

How the Global Open Data Movement is Transforming Journalism

(Jeanne Bourgault, President and CEO of Internews, wrote this op-ed about data journalism for Wired Magazine.)While traditional media continue their difficult decline, a cadre of the most innovative reporters, from Afghanistan to the Amazon, are quietly ... [Published Internews - May 31 2013]

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...effects appeared to persist for years after the 2005 drought," said study co-author Yadvinder Malhi of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. "We had expected the forest canopy to bounce back after a year with a new flush of leaf growth, but the damage appeared to persist right up to the subsequent drought in 2010."
Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest [Published SpaceRef - Jan 17 2013]

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Study Finds Warming-Driven Megadroughts Jeopard... [Published Think Progress - Jan 20 2013]
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005 , finds a new NASA-led study. These results, together with observed recurrences of droughts every few years and associated ...
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