Last January, fellow SkyTruther Sara Scoville-Weaver wrote an article, Black Ice Is Never A Good Thing…, about potential drilling in the Arctic Ocean and how a large oil spill – like the one caused by Shell and spotted on satellite image by SkyTruth last December off the coast of Nigeria – could affect the waters off […]
We built SkyTruth Alerts to give us a heads up whenever something happens that we might want to investigate with satellite imagery. But we figured if something happens that we want to know about, you probably want to know about it too. It’s the easiest way to get info about oil and gas drilling activity […]
A new year brings new possibilities here at SkyTruth! For us, that means an amazing new portal of drilling data and maps for easy access and download. SkyTruth Drilling Alerts is a compendium of datasets, links and news to give any concerned citizen the tools necessary to become informed about the issues that matter most […]
Well, let’s just say that’s not the most right we’ve ever been. We are happy to report that we actually caught some really cool images when the camera wasn’t spinning like a top up there in the atmosphere. Have a look. In this picture, Paul and John are preparing to fill the balloon with helium […]
If you missed it the first time around, here’s your chance to see us as we launch our SkyTruth Balloon Camera again this week! Please join us on the campus of Shepherd University as we once again send the balloon up and see what cool images we can gather as the Shepherd Environmental Organization celebrates […]