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Bárbara Pinho

@barbarapinho.com
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Freelance science writer covering agriculture, climate change and health Excited about #EarthObservation and #Space Porto, Portugal she/her barbarapinho.com

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Bárbara Pinho @barbarapinho.com · 20/11/2024
Here’s a cool fact I came across today: the world’s population doubled between 1975 and 2020 (nothing new there). But at the same time, built-up areas almost tripled! You can really see this infrastructure boom in action with this video of Las Vegas growing over the years, created with Landsat data
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Bárbara Pinho @barbarapinho.com · 16/11/2024
We now have fully processed images from MethaneSAT! MethaneSAT is an #EO mission to monitor and study global methane emissions The new observations suggest that emissions in North American and Central Asian production basins are significantly higher than currently reported in existing inventories
Satellite image showing methane emissions in the Appalachian basin Satellite image showing methane emissions in the Uinta basin 

In Utah’s Uinta basin with its aging, leak-prone infrastructure and low producing mix of oil and gas wells, MethaneSAT observed loss rates around 9%, ten times higher than in the more productive, gas-dominant Appalachian basin.Satellite image showing methane emissions in the Permian basin 

Based on gross gas production, the loss rate (or emissions intensity) of 1.8% to 2.9% observed in the Permian basin in these preliminary measurements is at least nine times higher than the 2030 target loss rate of 0.2% promised under the industry’s public commitments.
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Bárbara Pinho @barbarapinho.com · 23/11/2023
I have recently joined New Humanist as their new biology columnist! Check out my first story on how climate change is setting off a chain reaction of events underwater, affecting marine mammals and other creatures: newhumanist.org.uk/articles/619...
Brightly coloured coral underwater
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Bárbara Pinho @barbarapinho.com · 22/09/2023
I love Earth Observation and I don't see much of it here yet, so here goes one of my favourite images: part of the Sundarbans mangrove forest ⬇️ Credit: modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA High-quality image: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Satellite view of part of the Sundarbans mangrove forest in (Bangladesh)
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