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Landsat Satellite Sees Florida Mangroves Migrate North
December 30, 2013

Cold-sensitive mangrove forests have expanded dramatically along Florida's Atlantic Coast since the mid-1980s, as the frequency of killing frosts has declined, according to...

GLP e-News No. 63
December 23, 2013

GLP-OSM 2014 Land Transformations: Between Global Challenges and Local Realities Humboldt University, Berlin | March 19th - 21st, 2014 The 2014 Global Land Project Open...

Landsat 8 Helps Reveal the Coldest Place on Earth
December 19, 2013

What is the coldest place on Earth? It’s a high ridge in Antarctica on the East Antarctic Plateau where temperatures can dip below minus 133.6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 92...

New Book: Dryland East Asia: Land Dynamics amid Social and Climate Change
October 29, 2013

Ed. by Chen, Jiquan / Wan, Shiqiang / Henebry, Geoffrey / Qi, Jiaguo / Gutman, Garik / Sun, Ge / Kappas, Martin

GLP e-News No. 62
October 15, 2013

GLP Special Issue on ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’

NRC report: Advancing Land Change Modeling: Opportunities and Research Requirements (2013)
October 1, 2013

People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land...