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Will the forest ever return?

May 26, 2021/in Climate, Coal, Mining, Mountaintop Mining /by Christian Thomas

Working with our partners, including Appalachian Voices, SkyTruth has developed a tool to help activists, scientists, officials and others estimate whether mined sites have fully recovered.

Today, with our partners at Appalachian Voices, Downstream Strategies, 4E Analytics, and Green Forest Works, we are publishing the results of our Central Appalachian Mine Reforestation Assessment. Together we have developed an approach and dataset that assesses reforestation progress on formerly mined lands in the region.

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The Latest Data on Mountaintop Mining in Central Appalachia

December 8, 2020/in Biodiversity, Climate, Coal, Mining, Mountaintop Mining /by Christian Thomas

SkyTruth data shows that area of actively mined land in the region continues to decline. But is it recovering?

As 2020 comes to a close, SkyTruth is releasing our annual update to our Central Appalachian Surface Mining dataset, providing detailed information about the extent of mining operations from 1985 through 2019. The new data shows that trends we identified last year continue: namely, new areas have been cleared for mining, yet the total amount of land in the region being mined is declining.

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Supporting SkyTruth

November 19, 2020/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Coal, General, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Protected Area Monitoring /by John Amos

SkyTruth developed new techniques to monitor and protect the planet throughout 2020. Help us accomplish even more in 2021.

At SkyTruth we say that seeing is believing, and — even more importantly — if you can see it, you can change it. To help us continue illuminating the reality of environmental impacts on the ground in 2021, please consider making a year-end donation to SkyTruth.

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SkyTruth Board Member Darshan Karwat: Reimagining Engineering

October 26, 2020/in Climate, Mining /by Amy Mathews

Darshan Karwat wants to put social and environmental justice at the heart of engineering.

Darshan Karwat thinks big. Really big. Like as big as the cosmos. Or like reinventing an entire profession. So he asks a lot of questions. Questions that challenge conventional thinking. Questions that many people have never even thought about.

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SkyTruth’s Project Inambari Wins at Artisanal Mining Challenge for Rainforest Conservation

October 8, 2020/in Biodiversity, Conservation Vision, Mining, Protected Area Monitoring, Wildlife Conservation /by Bjorn Bergman

SkyTruth and partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation win funding for a public map platform to track mining in the Amazon.

On September 30, SkyTruth, along with its partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, were selected as a winner at the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge for our proposal to develop a public map that tracks mining in the Amazon using satellite radar imagery. We call this effort Project Inambari after one of the rivers in the region that has been particularly devastated by illegal and unregulated gold mining.

Archive for category: Mining

Working with our partners, including Appalachian Voices, SkyTruth has developed a tool to help activists, scientists, officials and others estimate whether mined sites have fully recovered.

SkyTruth data shows that area of actively mined land in the region continues to decline. But is it recovering?

SkyTruth developed new techniques to monitor and protect the planet throughout 2020. Help us accomplish even more in 2021.

Darshan Karwat wants to put social and environmental justice at the heart of engineering.

SkyTruth and partners at Wake Forest University and the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation win funding for a public map platform to track mining in the Amazon.