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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

Midstream research note: Rebuilding the Earth Index user interface

We are rebuilding the Earth Index user interface so anyone can quickly find evidence of environmental issues in any region without deploying

Mikel Maron
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Jan 16, 2024

Finding 5 billion chickens with human-in-the-loop AI model tuning via Earth Index

Almost all the chickens consumed in the United States come from factory farms.

Edward Boyda
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Jan 10, 2024

Building the vision for a more sustainable food future in Africa

At COP28 U.S. Secretary of State Blinken announced the commitment of $150 million to develop food crops well-suited to the changing climate in Africa.

Cameron Kruse
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Dec 7, 2023

Earth Genome builds the Climate TRACE experience for the most comprehensive and granular greenhouse gas emission dataset ever created

At COP28, Climate TRACE has released the most comprehensive and granular dataset of recent greenhouse gas emissions ever created.

Mikel Maron
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Dec 5, 2023

Measuring, mapping and mitigating global waste methane emissions

Today in Dubai at COP28, WasteMAP has launched to comprehensively track methane from waste sites around the world, and enable direct practical action to reduce emissions from this potent greenhouse gas.

Mikel Maron
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Dec 1, 2023

Food Twin: Stress Testing the U.S. Food System

Today the Plotline, the food climate and data community organized by Earth Genome, is launching Food Twin, a proof of concept digital twin of the United States food system.

Cameron Kruse
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Nov 16, 2023

How we judge Earth Observation foundation model quality, part 1: Intuition building

There are now several AI “foundation models” for Earth Observation (EO) data.

Ben Strong
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Oct 24, 2023

How AI can decode the Earth’s “Genome”

Imagine if we had access to a true “genome” for the Earth, an actionable blueprint that distilled the tsunami of data we collect about the planet.

Ben Strong
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Sep 25, 2023

Finding a Vector Database to Search the Earth

With the vector search landscape changing daily, identifying a vector database to be the backbone for earth observation similarity search at a reasonable cost has proven to be a challenge.

Zoe Statman-Weil
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Sep 18, 2023