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Capella Space has launched its Open Data Program to make its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data publicly accessible, the company announced Tuesday.  This program makes SAR data — which can see through clouds and darkness — available to researchers, nonprofits, developers and disaster response organizations. The

The findings, said one expert, 'show that the uncertain future is happening now.'

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed his country’s participation in a virtual climate summit convened by the U.S. for April 22 and 23, vowing in a recent letter to U.S. President Joe Biden to end illegal deforestation in Brazil by 2030 – a striking about-face from a longtime adversary to the country’s environmental policies. But not so long ago, both Brazil’s economy and its Amazon were prospering. In 2014, Brazil was closing out nearly a decade of continuous economic growth. P...

The Amazon rainforest has suffered devastating fires in the last two years, leading to the destruction of over 900,000 hectares of vegetation. In addition, humans have whitewashed another 1,202 square km (464 square miles) of forest in Brazil during the first few months of 2020. But as per a new report, the situation would be worse in the coming years and the lungs of this blue planet, Amazon rain forest, will be destroyed by 2064. In the report for Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainab...