This is what illegal ‘selective’ logging in Peru’s rainforest looks like. Locating and identifying illegal logging is dangerous work but Grantham Centre researchers have developed tech to track it in near real time by spotting subtle changes in the rainforest canopy... 1/2

Once areas are identified, officials can send resources to gaps to check suspicious lumber shipments. The tech has so far identified up to 37% of all reported illegal logging across 1.8m hectares of Peru’s rainforests. 2/2 Read more 👇 sheffield.ac.uk/news/new-techn…

Blowing Dust Over Northern Chihuahua💨🟤 Timelapse satellite imagery shows strong winds carrying #dust plumes over Northern Chihuahua. as well as an extensive smoke plume extending to the east-northeast. h/t: Tom Gill 🛰EUMETSAT Meteosat-IODC 📊Processed in Zoom Earth

Another dust storm brought very poor PM10 & PM2.5 air quality to the Las Cruces, NM & El Paso, TX metro areas 27 Apr. Aerosol Detection from the ABI sensor on NOAA Satellites GOES-East shows the extent of the blowing dust (yellow shading) yesterday afternoon. Tom Gill

Fantastic to watch the launch of #biomass this morning ⁦European Space Agency⁩ ⁦ESA Earth Observation⁩ #sheffield

"For every property type, the percentage of properties with a wood burner increased for every subsequent certificate" -Calum Kennedy, UCL on their latest analysis of wood burning in EPCs in English and Welsh homes. My latest for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

#Sandstorm hits Iraq, blanketing Baghdad in orange dust Parts of Iraq have again been covered in a thick sheet of orange dust during the latest in a series of sandstorms that have become increasingly common. Timelapse satellite imagery shows dust plumes blowing toward the Baghdad

"Crete island choking in Saharan dust" Powerful winds in pushed huge amounts of Saharan #dust from Libya toward the eastern Mediterranean as seen from space today, May 09. This impacts the region, especially the island of Crete. 🛰EUMETSAT Meteosat-IODC Processed in Zoom Earth

We had a f-ing haboob in Chicago -- wild

Satellite image of haboob hitting Chicago. Amazing. From satlib.cira.colostate.edu/weather_media/…

The plumes of desert #dust were streaming westward off the coasts of Namibia in southwestern Africa on May 22. Notice the dark green color of the ocean beneath the dust plumes, indicating the presence #phytoplankton thriving in the surface waters there. 🛰EUMETSAT ✂️Zoom Earth

This is dedicated to every dog walker that, when asked to please pop their dog on a lead as it’s ground nesting bird season, gets very irate and tells me ‘i can’t see any birds and anyway my dog NEVER disturbs anything’. You’re welcome.

Burbage. People are still lighting fires on bone dry ground in bone dry woodland. Prettifying it with stones does nothing to reduce the risk. People still don’t seem to be able to make the cerebral link between ‘but we’re just having a campfire’ and the devastation of wildfire.

NOAA’s Satellites Track Saharan Dust Blowing Across the Atlantic | NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaas-sat…

Unusual flow 🌬️: winds pulling #dust from the Mediterranean inland near Derna (Libya). A rare flip of the usual S→N Saharan pattern. Amazing how local pressure & heat 🔥 differences steer these brief dust episodes. 🌍 Climate swings make them even more telling.

A massive #DustStorm stretches ~2,300 km over Syria & Iraq 🌾. Hot, dry summer patterns ☀️ + exposed soils drive these plumes. Common regionally, but climate shifts 🌍 & land mismanagement intensify them. #AirQuality plummets😷, ag stress rises🌱. A textbook yet worsening scene.

#IAContraLaTalaIlegal Este lunes 14 de julio a las 9:30 a. m., el OSINFOR y la Universidad de Sheffield presentarán un innovador algoritmo basado en inteligencia artificial para detectar tala ilegal y fortalecer el monitoreo forestal en tiempo real. 🛰️🌳

📺 #OsinforEnMedios | 🤖🌳 El OSINFOR, The University of Sheffield y Cambridge University, presentaron ADETOP v2, un algoritmo entrenado con inteligencia artificial que detecta tala ilegal, usando imágenes satelitales y de drones. Conoce más en la entrevista vía TVPerú Noticias. 👇

A compact #dust vortex formed over Algeria’s Adrar region — likely driven by intense surface heating and weak low-level cyclonic flow. These mesoscale dust spirals aren’t common, but in summer #Saharan setups like this, they reveal just how dynamic "still" deserts can be.🏜🌀