[HTML][HTML] Fifty years of Landsat science and impacts

MA Wulder, DP Roy, VC Radeloff, TR Loveland… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time …

Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation

F Pendrill, TA Gardner, NJ Murray, TA Worthington, P Bunting, S Duce… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Tidal wetlands are expected to respond dynamically to global environmental change, but the
extent to which wetland losses have been offset by gains remains poorly understood. We …

Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century

P Potapov, S Turubanova, MC Hansen, A Tyukavina… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Spatiotemporally consistent data on global cropland extent is essential for tracking progress
towards sustainable food production. In the present study, we present an analysis of global …

Rapid changes to global river suspended sediment flux by humans

EN Dethier, CE Renshaw, FJ Magilligan - Science, 2022 - science.org
Rivers support indispensable ecological functions and human health and infrastructure. Yet
limited river sampling hinders our understanding of consequential changes to river systems …

Shifts in regional water availability due to global tree restoration

AJ Hoek van Dijke, M Herold, K Mallick, I Benedict… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tree restoration is an effective way to store atmospheric carbon and mitigate climate
change. However, large-scale tree-cover expansion has long been known to increase …