Articles & Stories SERVIR Applied Sciences Team helping African countries track and protect forests With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests. April 29, 2016
Articles & Stories ICIMOD and SERVIR contribute to official decision in Nepal to lower dangerous glacial lake Research from a SERVIR Applied Sciences Team and from scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) guided a UNDP-funded project that informed Nepali officials' decision to lower the water level in potentially dangerous Imja Lake. April 1, 2016
Blog Susan Malaso Wins UAHuntsville Poster Contest Susan Malaso Kotikot, an Earth System Science graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a graduate research assistant at SERVIR, has claimed first prize for her submission to the inaugural College of Science Research Horizons Day poster contest. May 27, 2015
Articles & Stories Space to Village: SERVIR-Himalaya fusing satellite-based observations with community forestry in Nepal Forested areas are important to our planet's health because they take in large amounts of carbon and release oxygen. When forests are removed or degraded, less carbon is taken from the atmosphere, and the result is increased carbon emissions, which may hasten climate change and increase its impact. March 18, 2015
Blog SERVIR participates in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 20th Conference of Parties SERVIR project director Dan Irwin has just returned from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) held in Lima, Peru. December 20, 2014