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Data-driven environmental decision-making and action in armed conflict Format Wim Zwijnenburg, Project Leader on Humanitarian Disarmament, PAX *A digital revolution through a myriad of earth observation data and open-source investigations is reshaping our understanding of the environmental causes and consequences of armed conflicts. From spatio-temporal analysis to near-real time monitoring of conflicts and resulting harm from scorched earth tactics, environmental data can quickly be incorporated in humanitarian action and reconstruction efforts. In other words, the scope and severity of envi...

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The Xingu River Basin, one of the most biodiverse regions of the Brazilian Amazon, is reeling from an explosion of illegal deforestation that has coincided with the rise and presidency of far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro. According to a recent report by the Xingu+ Network, based on its Sirad deforestation monitoring system, between 2018 and 2020, […]

Science refutes United Cacao’s claim it didn’t deforest Peruvian Amazon Years of satellite imagery and analysis reveals that United Cacao, a company once publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, deforested nearly 2,000 hectares (about 5,000 acres) of primary forest in the Peruvian Amazon. The evidence refutes the company’s narrative that farmers had degraded the land before it arrived. The deforestation, as well as other legal violations, have led to sanctions against a successor to United Cacao’s Peruvian subsidiary, now called Tamshi SAC. But Tamshi is now claiming that Mongaba...

Surface water resources and terrestrial water storage are important for human survival in Central Asia (CA) and the balance of regional...