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GPS collars map the world's largest land mammal migration

GPS collars on 262 antelopes map the six-million-animal Great Nile Migration in South Sudan.

Mongabay

November 3, 2026

Gabon agrees to sell six million forest carbon credits

Gabon agrees to sell about six million forest carbon credits, a landmark for sovereign forest finance.

Reuters

November 3, 2026

Small-scale fishers are being left out of ocean protection plans

Only 5% of ocean-protection pledges focus on small-scale fishers, a new MSC-WRI report finds.

Mongabay

November 2, 2026

UN names Ethiopia's Desa'a forest a World Restoration Flagship

UN names Ethiopia's Desa'a forest a World Restoration Flagship after restoring 23,000 hectares.

Mongabay

November 2, 2026

Brazil's new roadmap puts a price on halting global deforestation

Brazil publishes the first global roadmap for halting and reversing deforestation, with a $300bn annual price tag.

The Guardian

November 2, 2026

Indonesia's wildfire haze is now a public health emergency

Months of wildfire smoke have driven 333,000-plus acute respiratory infections in Indonesia and thousands of estimated deaths.

Mongabay

November 1, 2026

Environmental defenders put Canadian mining's human rights record before a regional body

Defenders from six countries told a human rights body that Canadian mining harms communities and called for due diligence law.

Mongabay

October 30, 2026

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Ocean

Mangrove Species Mapping in Coastal China Using Synthesized Sentinel-2 High-Separability Images

The first national-scale mangrove species map for China, covering nine species at 10 m resolution, achieved 83.8-86.4% accuracy and revealed extensive planting of exotic species in mid-latitude regions where they outcompete native mangroves.

Chuanpeng Zhao, et al.
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
July 30, 2026

Forest

Near Real-Time Monitoring of Tropical Forest Disturbance by Fusion of Landsat, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 Data

A fusion algorithm combining Landsat, Sentinel-2, and Sentinel-1 detects 70% of tropical forest disturbances within 30 days at 91% user accuracy, significantly outperforming any single-sensor approach, with the full implementation publicly available on Google Earth Engine.

X. Tang, Johannes Reiche, Martin Herold, et al.
Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
July 30, 2026

Carbon

Refining land-use-specific carbon emission factors for commodity-driven deforestation monitoring in Colombia

Pasture expansion drives 65% of Colombia's deforestation emissions; cocoa and coffee show high emission factors despite small areas.

Camilo Zamora, Robert Masolele, Katja Berger, Johannes Reiche, Christopher Martius, Louis Verchot, Zoltan Szantoi, Martin Herold
Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands
July 22, 2026

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