SERVIR Celebrates Earth Day 2023
The 53rd annual Earth Day was on April 22, 2023. To mark the occasion SERVIR colleagues across the globe shared their reflections on caring for the Earth, climate change and other environmental issues.
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The 53rd annual Earth Day was on April 22, 2023. To mark the occasion SERVIR colleagues across the globe shared their reflections on caring for the Earth, climate change and other environmental issues.
In the low-lying Terai region of Nepal, fields of emerald green rice sweep across the landscape as far as the eye can see. Villages dot the region, which produces the majority of Nepal’s rice.
|Meryl Kruskopf and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
Between January 1st and June 16, 2023, Nepal experienced 118% more forest fires than it had in all of 2022.
The U.S. Forest Service is hosting webinars to introduce an online training course on Remote Sensing for Forest Cover Change Detection. This activity comes as part of the USAID-funded SilvaCarbon initiative.
Nepal’s National Land Cover Monitoring System represents a pivotal achievement and is poised to significantly enhance the country’s climate data and efforts to cut emissions and adapt to climate change. This system is important for assessing and overseeing the ever-changing landscape, which is crucial for the sustainable stewardship of Nepal’s natural resources.
|Jaber Hassan and Sajana Maharjan, SERVIR HKH
The 54th annual Earth Day is on April 22, 2024. To mark the occasion, SERVIR colleagues across the globe share their reflections on caring for the Earth, climate change and other environmental issues.
ClimateSERV is a web-accessible system that allows users to access, visualize, and analyze historical Earth observations useful to decision-making across multiple sectors.
The Climate Resilient Forest Management System in Nepal enhances decision-making at the district level in Nepal by providing more precise and scientific information on climate change vulnerability and degradation of forest ecosystems.
SERVIR project director Dan Irwin has just returned from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 20th Conference of Parties (COP20) held in Lima, Peru.
Forested areas are important to our planet's health because they take in large amounts of carbon and release oxygen. When forests are removed or degraded, less carbon is taken from the atmosphere, and the result is increased carbon emissions, which may hasten climate change and increase its impact.