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Few countries have oil reserves as deep as Iraq. The extractive industries bring jobs and tax revenues to a nation that has been hobbled by invasion, war and insurgency for close to two decades. Yet this economic activity comes at a cost. Oil spills, pollution and declining air quality have taken a significant toll on the environment, and on the health of many Iraqis. On top of this, greenhouse gas emissions from the oil industry continue to contribute to global warming while some areas of Iraq are expected to become uninhabitable in the coming decades.  Yet assessing the true scale of the i...

Google Earth’s historical 3D time lapses show the ravages of climate change Share this story Google Earth is getting a new 3D time-lapse feature that lets you observe how Earth has changed from 1984 to 2020, allowing you to see just how much the devastatingeffects of climate change have already shaped the geography of the planet. “It’s best for a landscape view of our world,” Rebecca Moore, director of Google Earth, Google Earth Engine, and Google Earth Outreach, said in a call with reporters this week. “It’s not about zooming in. It’s about zooming out. It’s about taking the ...

Google Earth Time-Lapse Feature Tracks 40 Years of Change Twitter 0 comments We have already seen the numerous ways climate change devastates the Earth. It’s behind ghost forests popping up and down coastal US, ice caps melting in the Arctic, and wildfires destroying forests all over the world. In fact, in 2019, the United Nations warned that we only had 11 years to prevent “irreversible damage” caused by climate change. Beyond understanding the damage climate change currently inflicts on our planet, actually seeing how much the planet has changed in just a few decades paints a very s...

Virtual expert meeting discusses space-based solutions for disaster risk management and emergency response in Nigeria Format In recent decades, communities in Nigeria have experienced disasters triggered by floods, droughts, landslides, coastal erosion, oil spills, and other natural and technological hazards that have eroded hard-won development gains. Taking note of advances in space technologies and other technological innovations. Since 2008, the UN-SPIDER programme of the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the United Nations (UNOOSA) has been providing technical advisory support to several...

Source: MakeLemonade.nz A study reported in the journal  Current Biology  says while about 18 million square kilometres of Africa still has suitable habitat for elephants, the actual range of African elephants has shrunk to just 17 percent of what it could be due to human pressure and the killing of elephants for ivory. The Mara Elephant Project in Kenya looked at every square kilometre of the continent and found that 62 percent the elephant-land area is suitable for habitat, the Science Daily says. The findings suggest that, if released from human pressures, including the threat of being k...