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Mobilize Technology for the Good

Economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the pivotal role advanced technologies can play in environmental sustainability and crisis resolution.

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How the Pandemic Might Affect Our Environment in the Future

Esri chief scientist Dawn Wright is interviewed about Earth Day, oceans, and how the COVID-19 pandemic may affect environmental policies.

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Nevada Sees Mule Deer Decline from Above, Connects Dots with GIS

Nevada Department of Wildlife biologists use GIS to piece together a landscape-level understanding of wildlife and ecosystem health.

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Canadian Scientists Collaborate to Map Biodiversity and the Human Footprint

The wall-to-wall biodiversity and human footprint inventory are unique datasets found only at the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.

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COVID-19: Amazonian Tribe Applies Location Intelligence to Protect Community

The Kuikuro tribe in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest turn from mapping their ancestors to using the same tools to protect themselves.

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Winter Sports Advocates Map Economic Impact of Climate Change

Protect Our Winters uses GIS to research the economic impacts of low snow totals, using dollars and cents as a motivator in their outreach.

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What’s Killing Sea Grass on the West Coast?

Researchers use GIS to collect data from drones and other means to better understand eelgrass wasting disease.

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On Battling Climate Change

The combination of on-the-ground forest plot data from GIS and satellite data provides a whole new vision of the global forest system.

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Esri Press books on human geography and earth science

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A Global Approach to Preventing Plastic from Reaching the Ocean

The GIS user community is key to figuring out which beaches around the world are consistently fouled by plastic and how to clean them up.

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Mobile GIS Apps Help Citizen Scientists Guide Oil Spill Cleanup

After 25,000 gallons of crude oil spewed into the Pacific Ocean, the Surfrider Foundation leveraged location to streamline data collection.

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To Save Earth’s Climate, Map the Oceans

Scientists know more about the dark side of the moon than they do about Earth’s ocean depths. Seabed 2030 seeks to change that.

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