Climate

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

March 23, 2022/in Alerts, Bilge Dumping, Cerulean, Climate, Conservation Vision, Oceans, Oil Spill /by Jona Raphael

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.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Offshore Infrastructure Cumulative Spill Report 2020 – 2021

February 1, 2022/in Climate, Conservation Vision, Internship, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Breanna Xiong

SkyTruth’s project Cerulean helped intern Breanna Xiong document Trinidad and Tobago’s chronic oil pollution problem.

Trinidad and Tobago – the small dual-island Caribbean nation – has been a top exporter of liquefied natural gas for years. Because of its significant oil and gas exploration, and what some Trinidadians would call poor corporate and government responsibility, oil leakages from offshore infrastructure are very common events in Trinidad’s waters. With the help of satellite imagery, SkyTruth has been able to directly observe and continuously monitor Trinidad’s chronic oil pollution.

Monthly Methane Flaring Summary Data Now Available in Alerts

January 25, 2022/in Alerts, Alerts How-to, Climate, Flaring, Methane, Natural Gas, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas /by Dan Cogswell

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.

Twenty years of SkyTruth success

December 21, 2021/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, BP, Climate, Coal, Conservation Vision, Deepwater Horizon, Fishing, General, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Hydraulic Fracturing, Impact stories, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Overfishing and Illegal fishing, Protected Area Monitoring, Public Lands, SkyTruthing, Watchdog, Wildlife Conservation /by Amy Mathews

Satellite technology has changed but SkyTruth remains true to its core principles, with an impressive track record of holding industries and governments accountable.

As 2021 draws to a close, SkyTruth is celebrating its 20th anniversary as an environmental tech nonprofit. It’s hard for us to believe how far SkyTruth — and technology — have come in those 20 years, and how much we have accomplished. In 2022 we’re poised to grow even more; doubling the size of the SkyTruth team and magnifying our ability to use technology to promote conservation for people and the planet. Read on to join us on our journey from very humble beginnings to high-tech innovators.

Jona Raphael: Small town, big perspective

September 16, 2021/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Oceans, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Team /by Amy Mathews

SkyTruth’s machine learning engineer, Jona Raphael, grew up in Shepherdstown, West Virginia; SkyTruth’s home base. But it was his travels around the world that convinced him to knock on our door.

“I’ve always had an interest in sustainability,” Jona says. At SkyTruth, that interest translates into developing Cerulean, a machine learning model that automatically processes thousands of satellite images a day to detect oil pollution in the ocean,

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

SkyTruth’s project Cerulean helped intern Breanna Xiong document Trinidad and Tobago’s chronic oil pollution problem.

New SkyTruth Alerts layer helps pollution trackers quantify flaring trends.

Satellite technology has changed but SkyTruth remains true to its core principles, with an impressive track record of holding industries and governments accountable.

SkyTruth’s machine learning engineer, Jona Raphael, grew up in Shepherdstown, West Virginia; SkyTruth’s home base. But it was his travels around the world that convinced him to knock on our door.