March 16, 2025 | CHANGEMAKR.ASIA

Credit: Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre

How Google Earth is Helping to Save Southeast Asia’s Sun Bears

Post author:Nanda Anggraini
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:Biodiversity & Wildlife Premium Tech For Good

Deforestation, habitat encroachment, and poaching have decimated wild populations, driving the species closer to extinction; conservationists are turning to technology—using Google Earth’s satellite imagery and AI-driven tracking systems to safeguard the sun bears and better understand its habitat.

Post author:Mongabay
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:NA-Biodiversity News Aggregator

Conservation authorities and groups, along with Māori people, recently established a new population of the critically endangered kākāriki karaka, or orange-fronted parakeet, on a New Zealand island. Thirty-four kākāriki karaka…

Post author:Mongabay
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:NA-Blue Economy News Aggregator

On March 13, U.S federal Judge James Bredar issued an order requiring the Trump administration reinstate thousands of probationary federal employees recently fired as part of government downsizing. The reinstatement…

Post author:Climate Change News
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:NA-Carbon & Climate News Aggregator

In 2024, carbon emissions hit a record high, with more than 41 billion tonnes of planet-heating CO2 pumped into the Earth’s atmosphere. From aviation to agriculture, every industry contributed a…

Post author:Climate Change News
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:NA-Carbon & Climate News Aggregator

The United States will provide a $4.7-billion loan to a fossil gas plant in Mozambique that has been described as a “carbon bomb” and is beset by allegations of human…

Post author:Climate Change News
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:NA-Carbon & Climate News Aggregator

COP30 host Brazil has announced that world leaders will deliver their speeches on climate action several days before UN negotiations officially kick off on November 10, in a bid to…

Post author:Greenbiz
Post published:March 16, 2025
Post category:NA-Carbon & Climate News Aggregator

Many Germans voted for change in the country’s February 23 elections, following a second consecutive year of economic contraction. In defeating Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SDP), Friedrich…