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Bottom Up or Top Down? Another Way to Look at an Air Quality Problem
While not all countries have the financial wherewithal and capacity to deploy ground-based instruments for air-quality monitoring, and for some countries monitoring information is not available to the public, for example, through health advisories, another way exists to assess air pollution levels: through satellites.
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Health Risks From Famine Likely to Persist
Video Short: IRI’s Madeleine Thomson discusses the short- and long-term health risks of the East Africa famine
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Hybrid Climate Data for East Africa
In our latest video interview, climate scientist Tufa Dinku talks about his work on combining weather station data with satellite information to generate high-resolution data sets. These data could be used for making more accurate forecasts and can feed into other climate risk management activities, such as early-warning systems. With funding from Google.org, Dinku and…
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Remote Sensing Critical for Monitoring Drought
Remote sensing scientist Pietro Ceccato talks about how satellite information is being used to monitor conditions in East Africa.
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Urbanization, Export Crops Drive Deforestation
In Reversal, Land Is Cleared for Global Trade and Big Cities, Says Study
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