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SkyTruth Alerts 2023: New Incident Types and Enhanced Features

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As the world continues to grapple with environmental challenges, tools like SkyTruth Alerts have become invaluable for those who are passionate about tracking and responding to environmental incidents.

In 2023, SkyTruth introduced changes that expand the platform’s capabilities and provide additional monitoring opportunities. In this blog post, we’ll explore three new incident types added to SkyTruth Alerts – California Hazardous Materials Spills, Texas Oil and Gas Drilling Permits, and U.K. Oil and Gas Spills at Sea.

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SkyTruth Showcases Novel Use for Dynamic World Dataset at Geo for Good

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A new, free collection of data—in tandem with Alerts—bolsters our ability to detect habitat change in near real-time

This Thursday (October 6) SkyTruth’s Chief Technology Officer Jason Schatz will speak at Google’s Geo for Good plenary session alongside conference organizers from Google and World Resources Institute (WRI). Jason will present technology developed at SkyTruth that focuses on the value of Google and WRI’s new Dynamic World (DW) dataset. DW is a near real-time, land use/land cover (LULC) dataset that we’ve incorporated into SkyTruth’s Alerts application.

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Oil pollution in European waters: It’s worse than you think

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SkyTruth helped investigative journalists report on the extent of the offshore oil pollution problem in Europe.

For the past eight months, SkyTruth has been working with a team of journalists and media outlets associated with Lighthouse Reports investigating the problem of chronic (and often illegal) oil pollution by vessels at sea transiting European waters. These outlets recently released a groundbreaking series of stories. In this blog post we explain how SkyTruth developed the estimates used by these journalists to reveal the extent of oily bilge waste in European waters.

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EPA’s temporary suspension of environmental enforcement seems to have reduced pollution reporting

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SkyTruth intern Dhiya Sathananthan detected a drop in pollution reporting that might be linked to EPA’s temporary reporting suspension in 2020.

On March 26, 2020 the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency announced a temporary suspension in the enforcement of environmental legal obligations across a broad spectrum of activities. At SkyTruth, we feared an increase in environmental pollution might occur as a result of this policy and that industries might fail to report pollution events if they were not required to do so. Intern Dhiya Sathananthan dove into the data to find out what happened during this time period.

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Monthly Methane Flaring Summary Data Now Available in Alerts

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New SkyTruth Alerts layer helps pollution trackers quantify flaring trends.

Those tracking methane flaring will want to try the newest layer in SkyTruth Alerts: a summary of monthly flaring activity that can be based on your current map view or selected Areas of Interest. Learn how in this post.

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