Mining

SkyTruth 2020: What to Expect in the New Year

January 21, 2020/in Bilge Dumping, Biodiversity, Climate, Conservation Vision, Freshwater, Harmful Algal Blooms, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Natural Gas, Oceans, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Protected Area Monitoring, Public Lands /by Amy Mathews

Oil pollution at sea, mountaintop mining, Conservation Vision and more on SkyTruth’s agenda.

SkyTruth followers know that we generated a lot of momentum in 2019, laying the groundwork for major impact in 2020. Here’s a quick list of some of our most important projects underway for the new year: stopping oil pollution at sea, protecting wildlife, identifying poorly reclaimed mine sites, characterizing harmful algal blooms from space, and revealing fossil fuel drilling on public lands.

Christian Thomas Works to Protect his Home State of West Virginia

December 3, 2019/in Biodiversity, Climate, Freshwater, Mining, Mountaintop Mining, Oceans, Offshore, Overfishing and Illegal fishing, Protected Area Monitoring, Team /by Amy Mathews

Christian had a choice: The Peace Corps or SkyTruth. He chose SkyTruth.

“It was no contest,” Christian Thomas told me when I asked him about choosing between the Peace Corps and SkyTruth. Born and raised near Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Christian first met SkyTruth President John Amos at the Shepherdstown Farmer’s Market when he was a student at West Virginia University. When John learned that Christian was studying geography and environmental geoscience, he encouraged Christian to send his resume to SkyTruth.

New Data Available on the Footprint of Surface Mining in Central Appalachia

November 6, 2019/in Biodiversity, Climate, Freshwater, Mining, Mountaintop Mining /by Christian Thomas

The area of Central Appalachia impacted by surface mining has increased — by an amount equal to the size of Liechtenstein — despite a decline in coal production.

SkyTruth is releasing an update for our Central Appalachian Surface Mining data showing the extent of surface mining in Central Appalachia. New areas continue to be mined, adding to the cumulative impact of mining on Appalachian ecosystems, despite a decline in coal production.

Training Computers to See What We See

September 30, 2019/in Biodiversity, Climate, Mining, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas /by Jona Raphael

To analyze satellite data for environmental impacts, computers need to be trained to recognize objects.

The vast quantities of satellite image data available these days provide tremendous opportunities for identifying environmental impacts from space. But for mere humans, there’s simply too much — there are only so many hours in the day. So at SkyTruth, we’re teaching computers to analyze many of these images for us, a process called machine learning.

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Visualizing the Expansion of Fracking in Pennsylvania: Part 3

May 22, 2019/in Biodiversity, Climate, FrackFinder, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Mining, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas, Timelapse /by Brendan Jarrell

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Archive for category: Mining

Oil pollution at sea, mountaintop mining, Conservation Vision and more on SkyTruth’s agenda.

Christian had a choice: The Peace Corps or SkyTruth. He chose SkyTruth.

The area of Central Appalachia impacted by surface mining has increased — by an amount equal to the size of Liechtenstein — despite a decline in coal production.

To analyze satellite data for environmental impacts, computers need to be trained to recognize objects.