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Global Environmental Alert System

A biweekly service connecting science with policy

Beginning soon, GEAS will be releasing a bi-weekly newsletter to help you keep up-to-date with environmental science, research, and policy. Using satellite imagery, photographs, maps, and narratives to show natural and human related environmental change, this newsletter will provide credible information that delivers policy-relavant information in an easily understood format.

See some examples of environmental hotspots below, or check out the sample newsletter.

Environmental Hotspots

Through change studies of photographs, satellite images, maps and narratives, GEAS documents visual evidence of site specific environmental changes resulting from natural processes, human activities and the interaction between them.

Hotspots

Environmental Hotspots (as seen in Google Earth):
Dramatic Deforestation: Gishwati Forest, Rwanda
The Drying Up of Lake Faguibine: Mali
Rutile Mining in Sierra Leone
Helheim Glacier, Greenland
Disappearing Lake, Kenya
Tana River Primate Reserve, Kenya
Ngomeni Mangroves, Kenya
El Wak, Kenya