by SERVIR Team | Aug 31, 2022 | Ecuador, English
50% of Ecuador’s soils are being degraded. This situation demands special attention, as it leads to the reduction of water sources and increases vulnerability to climatic events in agriculture, which puts food security at risk. Faced with this challenge, a...
by SERVIR Team | Aug 18, 2022 | English, Guyana
In Guyana, mangroves are crucial for wave attenuation, and their intricate root systems help in sediment binding. As a result, they lower erosion rates while also acting as a key barrier during severe storms. Mangroves play a vital role in carbon capture and they...
by SERVIR Team | Aug 4, 2022 | English
Fires in the Amazon are the result of human activities that (usually) begin with slash and burn practices to clear the land for the introduction of agro-pastoral activities. For most part, fires occur over non-forest landscapes but can escape to standing forest edges...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 28, 2022 | English
A new approach for using satellite data to track and classify fires in and around the Amazon represents a major breakthrough in responding to the hundreds or thousands of fires occurring each day at the peak of the region’s fire season. Because these fires are a major...
