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Satellites keep forest management in check
 
12 July 2011   Satellites can bring new transparency to how forests are being managed. With the increasing production of pulp, paper and timber products, there is concern over the effect that expanding plantations and logging in natural forests have on biodiversity and climate change.
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Kangerdlugssuaq ice stream
Satellite’s final images focus on changing glaciers
 
8 July 2011   Some of the last images from ESA’s ERS-2 satellite have revealed rapidly changing glacial features in Greenland. In its final days, the veteran satellite gave us frequent views of the Kangerdlugssuaq glacier and its advancing ice stream.
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Astrium to build ESA's Sentinel-4 atmospheric sensors
 
11 July 2011   ESA today awarded a contract worth almost €150 million to Astrium to develop and build two satellite sensors that will monitor Earth's atmosphere as part of Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme.
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