ESA’s global land cover map, which is ten times sharper than any previous global ... online from the GlobCover website. It is the highest resolution land cover map that has been completely validated ever ...
... Asia.
"Arguably, we are on the verge of a last great global land grab," said Andy White, Coordinator ... exploration affects almost all titled indigenous lands.
In Papua New Guinea, although forest ...
... that releases of the gas from melting permafrost could amount to roughly half those resulting from global land-use change during this century. Schuur and his colleagues refine earlier assessments by ...
The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for October 2008 was the second warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA.
... importance but until now there have been no consistent global data by which to assess its extent and severity. For nearly ... study by Bai et al. measures global land degradation based on a clearly defined ...
The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for March 2009 was the 10th warmest since records began in 1880, according to an analysis by NOAA.
... to a preliminary analysis by NOAA. Additionally, the combined average global land and ocean surface temperature for June was second-warmest on record. The global records began in 1880.
The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA. Scientists also reported that the average land surface temperature for September ...
... today's economy.
Using a modeling system that integrates global land-use change driven by multiple demands ... Melillo and his colleagues simulated two global land-use scenarios in the study. In Case 1 ...
The combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures for June 2008 ranked eighth warmest for June since worldwide records began in 1880, according to an analysis ...
Global land use patterns and increasing pressures on water resources demand creative urban stormwater ... that urban forests, like rural forest land, can play a pivotal role in stormwater mitigation, but ...
The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for February 2009 was the ninth warmest since records began in 1880, according to an analysis by NOAA.
ASHVILLE, N.C., June 23 (UPI) -- A U.S. analysis shows combined average global land and ocean surface temperatures during May made it the fourth warmest since record keeping began in 1880.
... has been rising steadily because of the burning of fossil fuels and global land use change.
Project leader Rich Norby of the Environmental Sciences Division describes the end of the ...
