September 2, 2023

Penn State: New updates come to ‘Beescape,’ an online tool for supporting pollinators

Penn State: New updates come to ‘Beescape,’ an online tool for supporting pollinators. “Beescape is a mapping tool that allows users to highlight a particular location or area and get information about the habitat quality for bees. The updates include several changes to make the website more interactive and user-friendly, based on feedback given by stakeholders including growers, beekeepers, scientists and conservationists.”

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August 19, 2023

Bellingcat: A New Tool Shows What War Has Done to Ukraine’s Forests

Bellingcat: A New Tool Shows What War Has Done to Ukraine’s Forests. “We’ve launched the ‘OSINT Forest Area Tracker’, hosted on Google Earth Engine. Our tool compares data collected by Sentinel-2, a satellite which detects changes in infrared wavelengths and can be used to study the health of forests. The tool reveals the scale and intensity of anomalous changes on land. This narrows down search areas for researchers working on environmental damage in Ukraine.”

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August 6, 2023

Scientific Reports: GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration

Scientific Reports: GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration. “Developed primarily by combining data from GlobalTreeSearch with the World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (WCUPS), GlobUNT includes 14,014 tree species that can be filtered for ten major use categories, across 242 countries and territories.”

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June 27, 2023

Ground truth: CSIRO launches national data and information tool for soil (CSIRO)

CSIRO (Australia): Ground truth: CSIRO launches national data and information tool for soil. “Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a new tool that will help Australia sustainably manage a critical natural resource which sustains lives and livelihoods. Now live and available for use, the Australian National Soil Information System (ANSIS) brings together soil data from across Australia, connecting multiple data sources to provide access to nationally consistent soil data and information.”

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June 8, 2023

York University: Scientists discover air quality monitoring stations are collecting urgently needed biodiversity data

York University: Scientists discover air quality monitoring stations are collecting urgently needed biodiversity data. “An international team of researchers has discovered that thousands of ambient air quality monitoring stations around the world are unwittingly recording more than just atmospheric pollutants and dust: they are also likely collecting biodiversity data in the form of environmental DNA (eDNA). Until now it was thought that the infrastructure for monitoring biodiversity and national and global scales does not exist.”

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June 4, 2023

BIOFIN: New global mapping of finance sources is ready to help implement the GBF

BIOFIN (United Nations): New global mapping of finance sources is ready to help implement the GBF. “The database allows you to filter through hundreds of funding opportunities. Those opportunities sometimes focus directly on supporting conservation, but often also cover different ecosystems, cross-cutting activities such as awareness raising and knowledge generation, conservation measures, and pollution management. The funding opportunities range from grants to loans and equity, with amounts ranging from below $5,000 to over $10 million.”

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May 31, 2023

North Carolina State University: How Linked Data, Artificial Intelligence Could Help Animals

North Carolina State University: How Linked Data, Artificial Intelligence Could Help Animals. “In a new paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, two researchers suggest artificial intelligence and the growing body of information online, which they call the ‘internet of animals,’ could empower scientists to make real-time predictions about the future of species amid climate change, diseases and more.”

Research & Opinion 0
May 5, 2023

Natural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife

Natural History Museum: Monitoring changes in Wikipedia pageviews could help save wildlife. ” Monitoring changes in how people view the natural world could prove invaluable in gaining support for tackling the biodiversity crisis. Many current metrics that monitor these changes are not published in real-time, often due to a lack of resources…. But now researchers have developed a new tool called the Species Awareness Index (SAI), which can track the real-time rate of change in online biodiversity awareness. The index looks at the monthly change in average daily page views for around 40,000 species across 10 of the most popular Wikipedia languages.”

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April 7, 2023

University of Western Australia: Aboriginal art and knowledge unlocks mystery of fairy circles

University of Western Australia: Aboriginal art and knowledge unlocks mystery of fairy circles. “Fairy circles – barren patches which make polka-dot patterns in dry and desert areas – were first described by scientists in Namibia in the 1970s, sparking global debate about the phenomenon. A paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, authored by a cross-cultural team of researchers and Aboriginal people from Australia’s Western Desert region, has challenged scientific theories by learning from Aboriginal people.”

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February 25, 2023

Global Dam Tracker: A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information (Data Descriptor)

Data Descriptor: Global Dam Tracker: A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information . “We present one of the most comprehensive geo-referenced global dam databases to date. The Global Dam Tracker (GDAT) contains 35,000 dams with cross-validated geo-coordinates, satellite-derived catchment areas, and detailed attribute information.”

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February 9, 2023

ABS-CBN News: DENR, PhilSA to create database of natural resources

ABS-CBN News: DENR, PhilSA to create database of natural resources. ” The environment department and the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) are teaming up to create a database of natural resources. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and PhilSA on Monday signed a memorandum of agreement to use satellite imagery in the creation of the national environment and natural resources geospatial database.”

Research & Opinion 0
January 24, 2023

News release: New DNR tool provides health information for thousands of lakes (Minnesota Department of Natural Resources)

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources: News release: New DNR tool provides health information for thousands of lakes. “The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has created a new online tool, called the Watershed Health Assessment Framework for Lakes (WHAF for Lakes)… Users can compare a lake’s health measures to other nearby lakes. Along with graphics showing lakes’ relative water quality, biology, and hydrology, WHAF for Lakes includes information about basic lake characteristics and lake stewardship.”

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