November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... and damage inflicted to one of them will cause corresponding damage to the other The destruction of the Amazon rainforest is of major concern because, despite a considerable fall in the rate of deforestation since its peak in 2003, it still advances...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... power to the region. Vulnerability Organisations are bad enough at policing critical terrestrial areas such as the Amazon rainforest, so how much more challenging will it be to safeguard remote lunar regions? So far so good, but such sites are...
March 2021
Data may be the new oil... but its real value is in actionable information
... when necessary. Deforestation near the northwestern Brazilian city of Rio Branco has made its mark on the rainforest over the last three decades. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image (August 2016) illustrates where vegetation has...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
.... We have to reduce carbon emissions, stop using plastics, plant more trees, clean up the oceans, restore the rainforests, ban industrial farming, eat as little meat as possible, and divert subsidies away from oil and cars...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...? And why was I, an anthropologist, researching outer space? Weren’t we supposed to dig up artifacts and study villagers in a rainforest? Or maybe solve murder mysteries with forensics? Why was I helping any space capitalists hide skeletons in their...
