LCLUCers in Media
Larger Wheat Harvest in Ukraine Than Expected
December 05, 2022
Researchers from NASA Harvest and NASA LCLUC worked on estimating Ukraine wheat production during the war using satellite data. Russia’s further invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 fueled…
Southeast Asia remains world rice bowl as pockets of region suffer crop disasters
November 23, 2022
Rice crops in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have taken a hit from flooding and conflict this year, casting a shadow on a mostly sunny outlook for Southeast Asia’s output of the key grain as the…
How Nepal Grew Back Its Forests - NYTimes
November 14, 2022
A study led by LCLUC PI Dr. Jefferson Fox (East West Center) and his team was featured in the New York Times. Nepal is showing results after decades of effort, a rare success story in a world of…
Vast tropical tree farms push into biodiversity hotspots
October 31, 2022
Much of the tree growth in the tropics in the first decade of the century consists of plantations — not natural forest. The LCLUC…
Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated
September 13, 2022
Recent publication on pantropical plantation expansion by LCLUCer Mathew Fagan got Media coverage in Mongabay.
Highlights
- Globally, tree-…
Measuring War’s Effect On A Global Breadbasket
July 06, 2022
For more than a decade, Becker-Reshef , Sergii Skakun and other NASA-funded scientists have been developing innovative satellite-based techniques to monitor commodity crops such as wheat and…