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Greece becomes first country to use dedicated satellite network to detect wildfires

Greece has become the first country to use a dedicated satellite constellation, detecting fires as small as four metres across.

AP News

July 21, 2026

Improved reporting needed on forest carbon emissions

A new meta-analysis shows forest degradation releases more carbon than national reports capture — satellites are key to closing the gap.

ESA

July 21, 2026

IHI explores Kuva hyperspectral satellites for Japan's multi-sensor constellation

IHI and Kuva Space will explore hyperspectral satellites for Japan's planned 100-satellite sovereign Earth observation constellation.

SpaceNews

July 20, 2026

Tiny trackers reveal where migratory shorebirds need protection across Africa

Sub-2-gram satellite tags on 23 shorebirds have mapped migration routes across Africa, revealing unprotected stopover habitats.

Mongabay

July 19, 2026

How Olam Food Ingredients is waging a digital fight against deforestation

ofi is combining smartphone mapping and satellite monitoring across 730,000 farms to fight deforestation in its supply chains.

Reuters

July 18, 2026

EU's plan to overhaul its carbon market

The EU's proposed ETS overhaul slows emissions cuts but opens the door to nature-based carbon credits from 2036.

Reuters

July 16, 2026

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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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Forest

Global extent and drivers of tree cover loss quantified with high-resolution satellite data

Nearly 30% of 277,000 km2 of global tree cover loss in 2018 resulted in permanent forest conversion, quantified at 3-10m resolution.

Alexandra Tyukavina, Andrew J. Poulson, Jeffrey Pickering, Bernard Adusei, Matthew C. Hansen, Peter Potapov, Alex Baggett, Cesar Ortiz Dominguez, Anna Mikus, Xiao-Peng Song
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
July 22, 2026
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Forest

Fire dynamics in the South American Chaco and their link to agriculture and drought

65% of the Gran Chaco has burned since 1985; 70% of fires are clearing fires linked to deforestation, not natural climate drivers.

Matthias Baumann, Oswaldo Maillard, Ignacio Gasparri, Jamie Burton, Gregorio Gavier Pizarro, Tobias Kuemmerle
Geography Department, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
July 22, 2026
Earth Live interview available

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