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Deforestation in Bolivia
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Deforestation in Bolivia

Published Jan 1, 2001

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Tierras Bajas Deforestation, Bolivia
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Tierras Bajas Deforestation, Bolivia

The area east of Santa Cruz was originally dry tropical forest.

Published May 27, 2001

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Landsat 8 Detects New Deforestation in Peru
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Landsat 8 Detects New Deforestation in Peru

Free, open-access imagery helps scientists monitor remote areas and protect tropical forests.

Published Nov 19, 2013

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Agricultural Patterns
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Agricultural Patterns

Around the world, agricultural practices have developed as a function of topography, soil type, crop type, annual rainfall, and tradition. This montage of six images from shows differences in field geometry and size in different parts of the world.

Published May 30, 2006

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Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above
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Tracking Amazon Deforestation from Above

Satellites have played a key role in monitoring and reducing the rate of deforestation in the rainforest.

Published Dec 19, 2019

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Deforestation in Paraguay
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Deforestation in Paraguay

Roughly 20 percent of Gran Chaco’s forest has been converted into farmland or grazing land since 1985.

Published May 1, 2018

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Progressive Forest Clearing, Bolivia
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Progressive Forest Clearing, Bolivia

This photograph shows deforestation and agricultural development along Rio Parapetí in Bolivia between 1995 and 2008.

Published Dec 22, 2008

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Bolivia Deforestation
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Bolivia Deforestation

Published Mar 25, 2002

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Argentina’s Changing Chaco Forest
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Argentina’s Changing Chaco Forest

Ranching and farming operations have left a distinctive grid on the landscape.

Published Feb 27, 2016

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Green Circles—Al Khufrah Oasis, Libya
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Green Circles—Al Khufrah Oasis, Libya

Green circles in the desert frequently indicate tracts of agriculture supported by center-pivot irrigation. The Al Khufrah Oasis in southeastern Libya (near the Egyptian border) is one of Libya’s largest agricultural projects, and is an easy-to-recognize landmark for orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Because only about 2 percent of Libya’s land receives enough rainfall to be cultivated, this project uses fossil water from a large underground aquifer. The Libyan government also has a plan called the Great Man Made River to pump and transport these groundwater reserves to the coast to support Libya’s growing population and industrial development.

Published Nov 15, 2004

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Deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco
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Deforestation in Argentina’s Gran Chaco

South America’s second-largest forest has been experiencing rapid tree losses in recent decades.

Published May 20, 2020

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Rapeseed Agriculture, Kursk Oblast
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Rapeseed Agriculture, Kursk Oblast

Yellow flowers brighten the landscape of southwestern Russia.

Published Oct 13, 2019

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Deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil
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Deforestation in Rondonia, Brazil

This pair of images reveals how dramatically and rapidly the Amazon can be transformed. The images compare deforested areas (tan) to forest (green) in 2000 (top) versus 2006 (bottom). The area, which is in southern Rondônia southwest of the Pacaás Novos National Park, was almost completely cleared during the period. The decreased greenness of the remaining forest in 2006 may be from a variety of causes: drought, degradation from logging or accidental fire, or different angles of observation during the two satellite overpasses.

Published Mar 31, 2007

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Santa Cruz, Bolivia
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Santa Cruz, Bolivia

The metropolitan area is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world.

Published Apr 25, 2016

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A Honking, Fluttering Spectacle
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A Honking, Fluttering Spectacle

Flooded rice fields in the winter help farmers soften plant stubble for spring tilling. They also provide an oasis for migratory birds.

Published Mar 26, 2019

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A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez
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A Long Look at El Paso and Ciudad Juarez

When the Landsat archive is combined with modern computing power, scientists can view the planet not just across space, but also time.

Published Jun 11, 2013

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Making Sense of Amazon Deforestation Patterns
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Making Sense of Amazon Deforestation Patterns

Decades of satellite data make it possible to map how deforestation has evolved over time.

Published Nov 21, 2019

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New Map Yields Better View of Forest Changes
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New Map Yields Better View of Forest Changes

Open-access data from the NASA-USGS Landsat mission and cloud computing make for a highly detailed view of gains and losses in global and regional tree cover since 2000.

Published Nov 16, 2013

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Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary
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Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary

The echoes of history are printed on the land in this city in northeastern Hungary.

Published Jan 14, 2012

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Agricultural Fields near Perdizes, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Agricultural Fields near Perdizes, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Astronaut photograph of the diverse agricultural landscape in the western part of Minas Gerais state in Brazil.

Published Feb 21, 2011

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