Surf and Turf: Studying Land to Help Protect Reefs
As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
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As farmland increases in Belize, more and more sediment and agricultural runoff is making its way into the country's rivers and eventually into the sea — where it reaches the Belize Barrier Reef.
Our team from the SERVIR program made our way to the Himalayas to work with partners in Bhutan and demonstrate how NASA Earth observations and applied science approaches can align with the country’s unique environmental vision.
|Tim Mayer, Jacob Ramthun, and Lena Pransky, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
SERVIR scientists discuss the how the Regional Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System is being used in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
This fact sheet provides and overview SERVIR West Africa phase 2 implementation, which includes a consortium of seven regional institutions in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal.
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya helps improve environmental management and resilience in critical areas like food security, water resources management, disaster resilience, and sustainable lan
The Nepal DHM is the national agency responsible for monitoring and managing the hydrological resources of Nepal. This Use Case describes how they used the SERVIR Enhancing Flood Early Warning Services (EWS).
The Monitoring Extreme Weather in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) service provides a customized numerical weather prediction toolkit to assess high impact convective weather events over the HKH region.
On 28 June 2015, around 7 pm local time, a yak herder in Bhutan witnessed an alarming spectacle: a glacial lake outburst flood, or GLOF. He looked on as water from Lemthang Tsho (Memari) Lake, which had filled beyond capacity, burst over its embankment.
Forest fires have adverse ecological and economic effects and are a major concern in many countries, including Nepal. During the long, dry summers, Nepal experiences many forest fires. In 2016, a record number of fires were reported killing 15 people and consuming an area of 13,000 square kilometers (1.3 hectares) in the span of just two weeks.