June 8th is World Ocean Day! An annual global celebration where people unite to take action for our shared blue planet, as one ocean & one climate connects us all! The focus for World Ocean Day 2022 is safeguarding our … Continue reading
There’s a lot happening in the world of space at the moment! This week is the UK Space Conference, next week is World Space Week and, as we discussed in our previous blog, Landsat-9 successfully launched on Monday! Today is … Continue reading
Last month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest assessment report on how the planet is being impacted by climate change. The Working Group 1 report is the first instalment of the IPPC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), … Continue reading
Sand used as aggregate forms an essential and finite resource. Growing demand for construction – buildings and infrastructure, creating land through reclamation, and coastal protection from climate change – has resulted in supply pressures on traditional sources. Unmanaged extraction is … Continue reading
Next week is World Space Week and this year’s theme is ‘Satellites improve life’. The origins of World Space Week can be found in Houston in America when, in 1980, the World Space Week Association co-ordinated the first ‘Spaceweek’ which … Continue reading
Today, on World Humanitarian Day, the UK Space Agency has announced new funding for Pixalytics to help Kenya tackle the social and environmental impacts of unsustainable sand mining. Pixalytics will be leading the international project, called Earth Observation for Sustainable … Continue reading
It’s World Environment Day on Friday!! The United Nations General Assembly declared the 5th June each year as World Environment Day on the first day of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, also known as the Stockholm Conference, … Continue reading
The global pandemic we’re all currently facing demonstrates that borders are just lines on a piece of paper, nationalities are just a list of words and people are just people wherever they live. We all share the same Earth, breathe … Continue reading
Whilst most of Europe, and other parts of the world, go into various levels of lockdown and many people will not venturing far outside, this weekend marks two international celebrations: International Day of Forests takes place on Saturday 21st March; … Continue reading
Monitoring forest biomass is essential for understanding the global carbon cycle because: Forests account for around 45 % of terrestrial carbon, and deforestation accounts for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions Deforestation and forest degradation release approximately identical amounts of greenhouse … Continue reading
