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Asia-Pacific organisations are looking at sustainability as a strategic imperative that has to be measurable, says Google Cloud's Sherie Ng.

In SuperSight author David Rose delves into the current state of the art of augmented reality, how the technology is already transforming myriad industries and what it might help us accomplish in the future..

Lakes are an essential component of biogeochemical processes, and variations in lake level are regarded as indicators of climate change. For more than a decade, satellite altimetry has successfully monitored variation in water levels over inland seas, lakes, rivers and wetlands. Through altimetry, the surface water levels are measured at varying temporal scales depending on the orbit cycle of the satellite. The futuristic mission of Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) scheduled to be launc...

JAKARTA — In 2019, fires raged through Indonesia’s rainforests and peatlands, sparked by the deliberate burning of land for agriculture, and fanned by an El Niño system bringing drier-than-usual weather conditions. Ultimately, the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry would put the total affected area at 1.64 million hectares (4.05 million acres), an area half […]

Cheatgrass and other invasive plants are expanding rapidly in the western United States, putting more places at risk for wildfires.

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Early civilizations have inhabited areas with stable water resources that supported living needs and activities. The Mesopotamian marshes have experienced dramatic changes during the past five decades. The aim of this study is to observe, analyse and report the extent of changes in these marshes from 1972 to 2020. Data from various sources were acquired through Google Earth Engine (GEE) including climate variables, land cover, surface reflectance, and surface water occurrence collections. Additi...

The tool, which is built on Google Earth Engine and uses Google Cloud computing, assesses the environmental risk of different fibres across regions in

UNEP and its partners have embraced a range of digital technologies to accelerate climate action, nature protection and pollution prevention.

Coastal wetlands support diverse and vital ecosystems central to coastal areas’ biodiversity and economic vitality. However, coastal wetlands are