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NASA Awards $5M to Study Satellite Mission on Mapping Climate Change

EDGE Would Map Vegetation, Ice Sheets With High Density of Laser Beams

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Growing Resilience From the Ground, Up

Ugandan-born Geographer Catherine Nakalembe Links Satellites and On-the-Ground Monitoring to Help African Farmers Weather Extreme Events

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Energy Price Hikes Hit Older People Hardest, Study Finds

Researchers Compared Four Age Groups’ Energy Burdens in 31 Developed Nations

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Egg-citing Finding on Future Food Prices

Geographers Propose Way for Governments to Help Keep Consumers’ Costs Down

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Unexploded Ordnance Is Scattered Across Ukraine’s Front Lines. UMD Researchers Are Mapping Hot Spots With AI.

Shells, Rockets Fired in Wake of Russia’s Invasion Could Kill for Decades if Left in Place

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Rising to a Grand Challenge: Climate-Related Disasters, Farming Crises

Institutional Grant Team Works to Provide Early Warning in Maryland, Beyond

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UMD Conservation Criminologist to Study Plight of World’s Most-Trafficked Mammal

‘Operation Pangolin’ Research Team Aims to Protect Wildlife Threatened by Illicit Human Behavior

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Global Land Programme’s Headquarters Is UMD-Bound

Network’s Thousands of Scientists Study Issues Ranging From Global Carbon Emissions to Food Security

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UMD to Lead Effort to Bolster U.S. Agriculture With Satellite Data

$15M NASA Partnership Establishes Consortium to Improve Food Security, Diversity in Earth Observation Industry

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$95M NASA Cooperative Agreement to Support Research Center Focused on Global Sustainability

Funding Allows UMD to Expand Collaboration With Space Agency, Broader Research Community

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UMD Co-leads $750K NSF, Amazon Project to Tackle AI Bias in Mapping

System Could Enable Fairer, Safer Decisions on Resource Distribution

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Listening to ‘Animal Orchestras’ May Help Save the Amazon

UMD Researchers Use Soundscapes to Monitor Biodiversity in the World’s Largest Rainforest and What May Be Putting It at Risk

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