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Global Forest Watch Pro

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Forest Watcher

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In Barranquilla, Colombia, Urban Parks Revitalize a Declining City

  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Parque Sagrado Corazon in Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Cities
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • Urban Transformations
Initiatives
Ariel shot of a city with lots of trees.
Insights

We Lost a Football Pitch of Primary Rainforest Every 6 Seconds in 2019

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
Large logs sit on a truck bed in a forest concession in Ghana.
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
News

ADVISORY: Embargoed WRI Press Call on the 2023 Tree Cover Loss Data

  • global forest watch
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • deforestation

How "Complete Streets" Are Creating Safer, More Sustainable Cities in Brazil

  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
People cross the street in Belo Horizonte
  • Cities
  • transportation
  • public transit
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Development
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Timber Harvesting and Climate Change Are Depleting Europe's Mature Forests

  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • forest products
A bulldozer harvests timber in a tall, lush pine forest.
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • forest products
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Cities Need a Systems-change Approach to Build Climate-resilient Communities

  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Looking down at city buildings, some with green roofs and the street below.
  • Urban Transformations
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Mobility
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Climate Resilience
Update
aerial view of car on rainforest road
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
Update

Higher-Res Data Set Now Shows Trees Inside and Outside Forests Across the Tropics

  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
aerial view of car on rainforest road
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
Update
aerial view of car on rainforest road
  • Forests
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
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The World’s Last Intact Forests Are Becoming Increasingly Fragmented

  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • forest monitoring
A car makes its way down a road that winds through woods
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • forest monitoring
Update

New Mapbuilder Tool Offers Improved Custom Geospatial Monitoring

  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • Forests
A family checks a map as they walk through a path in the woods
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • Forests
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5 Cities Show How to Thrive in Turbulent Times

  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
Children playing in a neighborhood park in Barranquilla, Colombia.
  • Urban Development
  • Urban Mobility
  • Urban Efficiency & Climate
  • Urban Transformations
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities

Updated Tool Can Help US Communities Include Forests and Trees in GHG Inventories

  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • greenhouse gases
  • GHG emissions
  • global forest watch
  • Forest and Landscape Restoration
  • greenhouse gases
  • GHG emissions
  • global forest watch
News
  • global forest watch
  • deforestation
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Can Cities Thrive in Turbulent Times? 3 Questions for Cities in 2022

  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
Overhead view of a city
  • WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
  • Urban Transformations
Insights

Climate Benefits of Iconic Protected Forests Are Under Threat

  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • greenhouse gases
Man looks over river and World Heritage forest.
  • deforestation
  • global forest watch
  • greenhouse gases
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset