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Bookmark or Share- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Climate and Land CoverThe Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Climate and Land Cover provides data and information on global gridded climatological variables, global land cover maps, and national and international protected areas.
- Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Ecosystems | NASA EarthdataThe Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: MA Ecosystems provides data and information on the extent and classification of ecosystems circa 2000, including coastal, cultivated, forest and woodlands, inland water bodies, islands, marine, mountains (elevation), polar, and urban.
- New Environmental Performance Index (EPI) Available at NASA’s SEDACThe EPI provides quantitative metrics for evaluating a country’s environmental performance in different policy categories relative to clearly defined targets, and aggregates data on many indicators of sustainability into a single number – the EPI Score, which ranges from 0 to 100.
- Ecosystems | NASA EarthdataAn ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. As ecosy
- Checking Earth's Vital Signs | NASA EarthdataBoth are endangered, due in large part to habitat fragmentation from logging and other human activities. And both are evidence of the Earth's dwindling natural resources, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), the first-ever global effort to take stock of the planet's ecosystem health. And the vital signs aren't looking good.
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