Out in Front: How SERVIR's Locally Led Development is Driving Climate Action
Much of the world is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change, and it is disproportionately impacting the world's most marginalized populations.
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Much of the world is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change, and it is disproportionately impacting the world's most marginalized populations.
The SERVIR Mekong hub operates in Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Vietnam. The majority of the hub's work is with the Mekong River Commission, a treaty-based regional intergovernmental organization that is made up of Mekong countries.
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.
From April 22 to 29th, SERVIR, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, and the University of Alabama in Huntsville welcomed a delegation of Thai students and educators to Huntsville, Alabama for a week-long visit aimed at deepening the Discover Thailand's Astronauts Scholarship Program and U.S.-Thailand space collaborations.
With support from organizations such as the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR scientists like Dr. Narendra Das of Michigan State University are working with our regional hubs and other stakeholders on models that will better predict crop yields in the face of climate change.
The SERVIR regional hubs around the world celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, 2023. In case you missed the events, tweets, and other posts, here is a round up of highlights.
Nestled in between soaring green mountains, Guatemala’s Lake Atitlán is renowned as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. It has also been under threat by massive blooms of algae clotting its pristine waters. In 2009 and 2015, massive “blooms” of algae threatened to cause severe ecological damage.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
Forest rangers in one of Cambodia’s largest remaining forests now get deforestation alerts based on NASA satellite data.
|Ankit Joshi, SERVIR Southeast Asia and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
The Enabling Sustainable Landscape-Scale Agricultural Management through Fire and Air Quality Monitoring service guides authorities to regulate agriculture burning and manage forest fires using the Mekong Air Quality Explorer Tool.