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How We Built Climate TRACE’s Animated Plume Layer

I’ve always believed the best visualizations are simple, tangible, and evoke emotion.

Dan McCarey
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Oct 21, 2025

How we made Amazon Mining Watch more accessible for reporting and enforcement

At COP30, our partners Amazon Conservation and Pulitzer Center launched the new version of Amazon Mining Watch.

Bernardo Loureiro
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Nov 20, 2025

Building Climate TRACE’s new global view

In preparation for New York Climate Week 2025, we set out to do just that by displaying the global dataset as 3D extrusions on a globe. This is how we built it.

Andrew Milligan
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Nov 20, 2025

Quick tech note: Adapting AlphaEarth embeddings to new workflows

As remote sensing foundation model embeddings become more mainstream, we’re entering interesting new territory where there is increasing attention paid to not just how to create embeddings but also how to use them.

Ben Strong
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Oct 30, 2025

Building Climate Resilience in California’s Central Valley: How Watershed Modeling has Recharged Planning

The San Joaquin Valley sits at the crossroads of California’s water challenges.

Daniel Siegel
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Aug 12, 2025

Earth Index kicks off the GenAI Accelerator with Google in London

A few weeks ago we announced that Earth Genome had been selected for the Google GenAI Accelerator run by Google.org.

Hutch Ingold
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Jul 21, 2025

Global Food Twin: Modeling the World’s Food System

Imagine drought conditions take out 40% of the grain that is grown in West Bengal; where in the world can we expect to see food insecurity?

Cameron Kruse
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Jun 19, 2025

Embeddings for all

Earth observation foundation model embeddings released in the commons

Hutch Ingold
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Apr 23, 2025

The entire planet is now searchable with Earth Index. What do you want to find?

You can now use AI to search the entire planet using Earth Index, unlocking critical environmental intelligence.

Ben Strong
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Mar 26, 2025

Earth Index Imagery V2

Today we’re excited to release the second version of our Sentinel 2 yearly composites with many major improvements in quality.

Hutch Ingold
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Mar 11, 2025