Existing and emerging Earth observing technologies can help us be ready for the unexpected.
Hope in Our Final Hour
As the world shifts around us, we face one last chance to turn it all around. We’re uniquely suited to face this challenge; all we need now is the courage to act.
Traveling for Change
Increased opportunities for education, travel and cultural exchanges can unite our planet.
Data to Decisions: GEO Value Plans Workshop for 2016
GEO Value seeks to build a case-based framework for transforming data to action at its March 2016 workshop.
XPrize Challenges Researchers to Explore the Great Depths of the Ocean
On the first day of AGU’s 2015 Fall Meeting, X-Prize keynote speakers announced a $7 million prize that challenges competitors to revolutionize underwater exploration and mapping of the deep ocean floor.
Call for Papers: Socioeconomic Benefits
Earthzine, an IEEE-sponsored online scientific publication, is soliciting articles of 800 to 3,000 words for its fourth 2015 quarterly theme.
Economically viable US renewable generation
Analysts are providing, for the first time, a method for measuring the economic potential of renewable energy across the United States. A study applying this new method found that renewable energy generation is economically viable in many parts of the United States largely due to rapidly declining technology costs.
Live Coverage of GEO-XII
From Nov. 11-13, 2015, researchers from around the world who depend on and develop Earth Observation data will gather in Mexico City for the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) 12th Plenary and Ministerial Summit.
GEO Helps Launch Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Global data collaboration has long been a driving goal of the Group on Earth Observations. The recent launch of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data promises to help forward that goal.
GEOGLAM: Working Together to Reduce Poverty and Fight Global Hunger
A global effort to make agricultural projections available to anyone with an Internet connection may hold the key to fighting hunger and reducing poverty. On a hot and humid June day in 1943, with World War II still raging in Europe and the Pacific, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt welcomed delegates from around the world to the first-ever United Nations … Read More