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Deforestation
Above and Beyond: Logging and Agriculture in Bolivia.
Infrared and visible-light satellite imagery highlight relationships between deforestation and agriculture in Bolivia.
Deforestation: Video Segments
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Title
Time
Insight Into: Deforestation
01:43
Above and Beyond: Logging and Agriculture in Bolivia.
00:56
Myth vs Reality: Locations of Deforestation
00:41
Terrestrial Tour: Falling Trees
17:00
Myth vs Reality: Causes of Deforestation
00:41
World of Change: Mountaintop Mining in West Virginia
01:50
At a Glance: Logging Activity in Washington State
02:26
Above and Beyond: Fire and Agriculture in Borneo and Sumatra
00:47
Credits
Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with the NASA Earth Observatory.
- Landsat 7 image of Bolivia: USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branc
Video design and production by STScI
Text by STScI, based on stories from the NASA Earth Observatory: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
Music courtesy of APM
Transcript
This patchwork quilt was crafted not by someone's grandmother, but by loggers and ranchers in the rainforest of Bolivia. Blue shows cleared lands, likely for cattle grazing or soybean production. Vegetation, both natural and cultivated, appears in red. The pinwheel or starburst patterns are designed agricultural settlements, each with wedge-shaped fields fanning out from a small, centralized community.