July 29, 2025 | CHANGEMAKR.ASIA

Post author:Mongabay
Post published:July 29, 2025
Post category:NA-Biodiversity News Aggregator

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the mid-1990s, the kākāpō seemed destined for extinction. Only 51 individuals of…

Post author:Mongabay
Post published:July 29, 2025
Post category:NA-Biodiversity News Aggregator

The government of Chad has signed a 10-year deal with the U.S.-based NGO Sahara Conservation to manage the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve (OROAFR), the group announced July 11. The…

Post author:Mongabay
Post published:July 29, 2025
Post category:NA-Biodiversity News Aggregator

A last-minute proposal to revise the European Union’s sweeping antideforestation law has conservationists worried about yet another delay to the law’s implementation and weaker oversight of supply chains. The EU…

Before sunrise solar power plants by huangyifei from Getty Images

AI-Powered Tool Maps 1,800 MW of Rooftop Solar Potential in the Philippines, Urban Coverage Under 1%

Post author:Changemakr Asia
Post published:July 29, 2025
Post category:Carbon & Climate Data & Insights Latest Tech For Good

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), a Manila-based non-governmental think tank, has deployed SPECTRUM (Solar Power Estimation of Capacities and Tracking Using Machine Learning) to pinpoint installed systems and quantify their output with up to 90 percent accuracy—revealing 1,846.08 MW of rooftop panels nationwide, yet less than 1 percent of urban rooftop area is covered.