Paying It Forward: 5 Questions with Africa Flores
A natural curiosity about our home planet is often the greatest driver of scientists who use Earth observations to better understand the Earth's land, water, and ecosystems.
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A natural curiosity about our home planet is often the greatest driver of scientists who use Earth observations to better understand the Earth's land, water, and ecosystems.
Cyclone Idai left more than 1,000 people dead and thousands more missing, potentially affecting millions in Southern Africa. As emergency response and recovery efforts continue, another disaster is likely unfolding elsewhere on the continent: Idai pulled precipitation South, away from Eastern Africa, resulting in persistent dry conditions affecting crops at the start of the main growing season.
ICIMOD, under its SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) and Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) Initiatives, is collaborating with technical organizations in the United States and meteorological and agricultural institutions in the HKH to establish a regional agricultural drought monitoring and early warning system.
Forest deforestation and degradation in Latin America remains alarmingly high. One way to address this challenge is through the development of web-based monitoring and evaluation programs.
SERVIR's service planning approach brings partners, stakeholders, and end users into the design process from the very beginning, even before solutions are discussed.
During a workshop on drought monitoring and forecasting in Ninh Thuan province on July 30, 2019, participants were introduced to SERVIR-Mekong's Regional Drought and Crop Yield Information System (RDCYIS).
Forests cover approximately 30 percent of Earth's land surface and play a vital role in the global carbon cycle: forests account for around 72 percent of Earth's terrestrial carbon storage, making vegetation biomass a larger carbon store than the atmosphere.
As Thailand's second largest city, Chiang Mai has been facing the problem of haze pollution over the past decade, due to agricultural practices and rapid industrial growth associated with tourism.
At the recent global knowledge exchange of SERVIR staff from SERVIR-Amazonia and SERVIR-West Africa exchanged ideas and experiences on services for illegal mining detection.
Monitoring of gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon is a service that aims to produce near real-time information on mining deforestation and activity in the Tapajos basin, State of Pa