Sarah Alix Mann

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For Companies that Cut Protected Forests, There’s Nowhere to Hide
by Sarah Alix Mann and Octavia Payne - June 02, 2016
Sustainability is increasingly critical to the corporate bottom line, as advanced technologies make it easier to detect unsustainable and illegal practices in the production of commodities including cacao and palm oil.
New Platform Reveals How Much Carbon Is Locked in Tropical Forests – and How Much Was Lost
by Nancy Harris and Sarah Alix Mann - December 01, 2015
GFW Climate shows that between 2001 and 2013, greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation across the world’s tropical forests were larger than Russia’s annual emissions. And that's just one finding of many.
3 Trends in US Wildfires
by Sarah Alix Mann and Mimi Gong - November 09, 2015
More than 8 million acres of the U.S. landscape have burned this year. Global Forest Watch provides insights on where they're happening, and how they compare to previous fire seasons.
With Latest Fires Crisis, Indonesia Surpasses Russia as World’s Fourth-Largest Emitter
by Nancy Harris, Susan Minnemeyer, Nigel Sizer, Sarah Alix Mann and Octavia Payne - October 29, 2015
Fires from this year alone have tripled Indonesia's annual emissions.
¿Cuánta selva tropical hay en esa barra de chocolate?
by Nancy Harris, Octavia Payne and Sarah Alix Mann - August 06, 2015
El apetito mundial por el chocolate está a un punto máximo sin precedentes, y los productores buscan nuevos lugares para cultivar cacao, la materia prima del chocolate y del cacao en polvo. Algunos productores han recurrido a Sudamérica, donde las imágenes satelitales resaltan a una plantación de cacao que está invadiendo la selva tropical amazónica.
How Much Rainforest Is in That Chocolate Bar?
by Nancy Harris, Octavia Payne and Sarah Alix Mann - August 06, 2015
With the world’s appetite for chocolate at an all-time high, producers are looking for new places to grow cacao—the raw ingredient in cocoa and chocolate. Some are turning to South America, where satellite images show one cacao plantation encroaching dramatically on the Amazon rainforest.
Zooming In: “Sustainable” Cocoa Producer Destroys Pristine Forest in Peru
by Octavia Payne and Sarah Alix Mann - June 09, 2015
United Cacao cleared more than 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of trees in previously undisturbed forests to make way for its plantation.
Monitoring Forest Change in Latin America with Terra-i
by Hayley Amelia Solak, Ruth Nogueron and Sarah Alix Mann - December 08, 2014
A new collaboration between WRI and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture lets users of Global Forest Watch visualize and analyze tree cover loss alerts for all of Latin America with a near-real time deforestation monitoring system called Terra-i.
Três Mapas que Ajudam a Explicar a Crise da Água em São Paulo, Brasil
by Andrew Maddocks, Tien Shiao and Sarah Alix Mann - November 06, 2014
O Brasil possui maior quantidade de água doce do que qualquer outro país no mundo—12% do volume total de todo planeta. Então, como São Paulo—a maior e mais rica cidade da América do Sul—está ficando sem água? Três mapas ajudam a contar essa complexa história.
3 Maps Help Explain São Paulo, Brazil’s Water Crisis
by Andrew Maddocks, Tien Shiao and Sarah Alix Mann - November 04, 2014
Brazil has more freshwater than any country in the world – 12 percent of the entire planet’s total volume. So how is São Paulo—the richest, largest city in South America—running out of water?

Three maps help tell the complicated story.

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Sarah Alix Mann

For Companies that Cut Protected Forests, There’s Nowhere to Hide

New Platform Reveals How Much Carbon Is Locked in Tropical Forests – and How Much Was Lost

3 Trends in US Wildfires

With Latest Fires Crisis, Indonesia Surpasses Russia as World’s Fourth-Largest Emitter

¿Cuánta selva tropical hay en esa barra de chocolate?

How Much Rainforest Is in That Chocolate Bar?

Zooming In: “Sustainable” Cocoa Producer Destroys Pristine Forest in Peru

Monitoring Forest Change in Latin America with Terra-i

Três Mapas que Ajudam a Explicar a Crise da Água em São Paulo, Brasil

3 Maps Help Explain São Paulo, Brazil’s Water Crisis

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