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For our third and final panel here at #ClimateWeekNYC, the focus is: Protecting Biodiversity from Industrial Threats. Joining us are our friends from @vizzuality.com, @earthgenome.org, the @pulitzercenter.org, and @planetsapling.bsky.social!

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As part of the session, our Chief Technology Officer, Karl Wurster, just announced our latest report: Global Estimate of Marine Oil Pollution. "Oil pollution is a constant, global issue that happens far more often than the spills that make headlines." 👇

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🛰️ We've kicked off our event at #ClimateWeekNYC & started the day by talking about exposing ocean pollution at scale with our friends at @globalfishingwatch.org, @ai2.bsky.social, and Plastic Odyssey!

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Up next at #ClimateWeekNYC: our panel on uncovering the hidden costs of oil and gas, with our friends at @globalenergymon.bsky.social, Carbon Mapper, Google and Data Desk!

"We've now estimated its true scale using satellite data — the problem is measurable, and potential sources can increasingly be identified. Our analysis also reveals where the biggest gaps in accountability and protection remain, and that is where attention and enforcement need to be directed."

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 21/09/2026

🎤 Today's the day! We're so excited to see our partners soon at this year's #ClimateWeekNYC! We're hosting a collaborative session to highlight work in three of the most consequential data frontiers in conservation: ocean pollution, oil and gas, and biodiversity protection. Stay tuned for updates!

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🌆 Our team is #ClimateWeekNYC-bound! Attending? Send us a message to connect. 🗓️ We're looking forward to seeing our friends and partners at our event on Wednesday morning: Turning Geospatial Data into Action on Pollution and Climate. It currently has a long waitlist, but... 🧵👇

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 19/09/2026

🌴 Rich in coral reefs, seagrass meadows & mangrove forests, Bintan Island is a national priority for building coastal resilience in #Indonesia. Its beaches & waters also support tourism and local fishing communities. Yet in 2024, thick black sludge washed ashore, impacting water quality & tourism.

This image features logos of SkyTruth and the Financial Times. Below, there is text stating "Financial Times: Uncovering Chronic Oil Pollution Hotspots in Southeast Asian Waters" with the location marked as Indonesia. The background shows an aerial view of a lush landscape with a body of water.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 16/09/2026

Our goal is to foster discussion that will surface gaps, spark partnerships, and drive action in three of the most consequential data frontiers in conservation: ocean pollution, oil and gas, and biodiversity protection. 🗓️ Follow along here for previews and highlights from the session!

This image is a promotional graphic for a Climate Week NYC event by SkyTruth. It features the New York City skyline. The event title is "Turning Geospatial Data into Action on Pollution and Climate," scheduled for Wednesday, September 23, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 16/09/2026

🌆 Ready for #ClimateWeekNYC? We’ll be hosting a collaborative working session to convene top leaders & practitioners in the environmental sector, with a laser focus on one question: ❓ How can geospatial data accelerate our collective progress on the planet's most pressing environmental challenges?

A dark ocean scene with an oil spill is shown. Text on the image states: "Exposing ocean oil pollution at scale. We’re releasing a new report revealing the extent, concentration, and culpability of chronic oil pollution in our oceans." Surrounding the image are scattered orange dots.

An illuminated offshore oil rig at night with text overlay: "Uncovering the hidden costs of oil and gas. We’re facing one of climate’s biggest blind spots head on: the gap between detection and action on emissions caused by the offshore oil and gas industry." Surrounding the image are scattered orange dots.

A forested area with a text overlay: “Protecting biodiversity from industrial threats. We’re discussing cross-sector efforts to measure and mitigate the impact of mining operations on the world’s most critical ecosystems.” The design includes scattered orange dots.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 14/09/2026

🌊 ICYMI: Did you know Cerulean source searches are now all in one place? A new single, unified search bar lets you search for vessels, infrastructure, flags, or tags. The latest update is visible as soon as you open the platform. 🔗 Learn more: skytruth.org/product-updates/unifie…

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 11/09/2026

“It’s horrible to see smoke pouring from wounds in your own country from such a fantastic vantage point." A striking image from NASA on this 25th anniversary of unimaginable loss. Details 👇

A NASA image of New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, from the International Space Station

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 10/09/2026

🚩 “Be quiet. Do not speak out. If you speak, it will be trouble for you.” A ship engineer told The Guardian that they received this threat from a superior after raising concerns about illegal bilge-water dumping at sea. 🧵 👇

Boats on a dark sea with logos for "SkyTruth" and "Lighthouse Reports" above. Text reads: "Lighthouse Reports: Investigating the Culture of Illegal Bilge Dumping in Europe’s Seas. Location: Europe."

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 04/09/2026

🗓️ It's been a busy summer for the SkyTruth team & our latest newsletter recaps the highlights! Catch up on the latest here: 22166071.hs-sites.com/skytruth-new... Not a subscriber? No worries! Sign up here to receive the September issue 👉 bit.ly/SkyTruth-new...

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 02/09/2026

Oceana UK released a report & documentary that used Cerulean to visualize the extent of oil spills, alongside SkyTruth analysis to reveal what incomplete reporting can hide. Both were used to campaign against new North Sea oil & gas licenses because of impacts on marine ecosystems and the climate. 🌊

A Cerulean screenshot showing a suspected oil slick in the North Sea

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 02/09/2026

💥 In 1988, the Piper Alpha oil rig exploded, killing 167 people. More than 20 years later, its replacement, Piper Bravo, had developed a troubling history of chronic oil pollution in the North Sea. Here’s how data helped reveal what official reporting left out. 🧵

A photo background shows an offshore oil rig against a red sky and clouds. The SkyTruth and Oceana logos are overlaid next to each other at top. White text in a box below reads Oceana UK, Telling the True Tale of Chronic Oil Pollution in the UK's North Sea; Location: United Kingdom

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 28/08/2026

🗓️ Attending #ClimateWeekNYC? Join us Sept. 23 for a high-impact gathering focused on one overarching question: how can geospatial data accelerate our collective progress on the planet's most pressing environmental challenges? See full details & register: www.climateweeknyc.org/event-search...

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 27/08/2026

🔍 New in Cerulean: source searches are now all in one place! Source-specific search fields have been consolidated into a single search bar that allows you to search for vessels, infrastructure, flags, or tags. 🔗 Full details on the update can be found here: skytruth.org/product-upda...

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 25/08/2026

🐟 What can satellites reveal about forced labor at sea? A devastating hidden cost of the global fishing industry: modern slavery. Migrant workers from Southeast Asia have been kidnapped, trafficked, or deceived into working aboard fishing vessels in remote waters.

A background photo shows several large vessels lined up parallel and directly next to each other, rafted as they would be for transshipment. Overlaid at top are the SkyTruth and AP logos next to each other. a text box centered beneath has the following in white text: "Associated Press; Tracking Slave Ships from Space: Exposing Human Rights Abuses at Sea; Location: Southeast Asia"

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 19/08/2026

🇮🇩 In February 2023, the livelihoods of 641 Indonesian fishermen were impacted after a tanker carrying asphalt sank off the coast of North Sumatra. The tanker's load spilled, and the resulting pollution stretched up to 70 km in the surrounding sea.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 04/08/2026

🇨🇴 In 2014, oil spills off Tolú, Colombia left the Gulf of Morrosquillo covered in dead fish—a warning of the growing risks as offshore drilling expands across Latin America and the Caribbean. How do you prove who's responsible for pollution at sea?

A coastal satellite image of a coastline serves as the background, with white logos at top - SkyTruth on the left and AIDA on the right. A text box centered below has white text that reads: Fighting Offshore Drilling in Latin America and the Caribbean; Location: Latin America"

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 28/07/2026

🇵🇪 Illegal gold mining is transforming parts of the Peruvian Amazon. With support from Conservation X Labs, we worked with Peru's Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado (SERNANP) to create Project Inambari—a free tool to detect gold mining activity using satellite imagery.

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 21/07/2026

🏝️ Off the coast of Bintan, Indonesia, a 37-acre island resort overlooks one of the world's busiest shipping corridors, where tankers on global shipping routes pass just offshore. Protecting these waters is part of protecting the community that depends on them for the resort's founder, Andrew Dixon.

A graphic showing an aerial view of an island in the background, with the ocean to the left and the sandy beach of the island to the right.

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 17/07/2026

To track real progress, we are partnering with the Med Sea Alliance through our 30x30 Progress Tracker to show marine protection across the Mediterranean based on internationally confirmed data—not announcements. 🇪🇸 First stop: Spain.

A screenshot of the 30x30 Progress Tracker dashboard showing an area of Spain's coast with marine protection stats visible in the left panel.

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 13/07/2026

🇰🇪 One message came through loud and clear for SkyTruth Chief Impact Officer Mitchelle DeLeon at this year's #OurOcean Conference in Kenya: transparency matters. He reflects on his experience & SkyTruth's presence at this global gathering in our latest blog post: skytruth.org/blog/marking...

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 07/07/2026

📥 ICYMI: our latest newsletter showcased our annual report, introduced our new, and highlighted recent events where we supported our partners and demonstrated how tools like #Cerulean can expand the scope of marine enforcement operations beyond fisheries into oil pollution monitoring 🇵🇦 🇨🇦

Screenshot of the header of our annual report. A photo is in the background, showing a vessel (right side) on its side in the water with an oil spill surrounding it. Text in white on the left reads "2025 Annual Report; From insight to impact; Open, trusted data driving policy and protection

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 07/07/2026

In 2005, just 60 well pads existed in the study area. By 2010, that number had grown to over 1,400, a nearly 24-fold increase in five years. We also scraped nearly 30,000 chemical disclosure reports from FracFocus, making previously inaccessible data freely available for public scrutiny & research.

$A Google Earth map from the linked blog post, showing crowd-sourced mapping of hydraulic fracturing well pads across Appalachia$

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 07/07/2026

🗺️ In 2013, we launched FrackFinder, a crowdsourced project enlisting volunteers to map fracking well pads across Appalachia. Within 29 days, 233 volunteers completed nearly 90,000 image classifications, revealing how rapidly the region had been industrialized by fracking. The results were striking.

$Visual tile with a photo of an Appalachian landscape in the background, including fracking equipment just visible on the right. Overlaid is the SkyTruth logo at top and a semi-opaque text box beneath, reading in white text: "Case study, Putting Fracking on the Map, Location: Central Appalachia."$

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 29/06/2026

🖥️ Join us for our webinar tomorrow! We'll be marking our 25th anniversary, highlighting our recently released annual report, and catching up on our tools with our new CTO. 🗓️ Tues, June 30, 3 p.m. ET 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... All registrants will receive a link to the recording.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 29/06/2026

SkyTruth visualized global LNG vessel traffic throughout 2023, creating a map that shows routes of all LNG tankers, including the Diamond Gas Rose, which traveled approximately 85,000 kilometers in 2023–enough distance to circle the globe twice.

Data visualization map: 2023 Global Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Tanker Traffic

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 29/06/2026

🗣️ @saynotolng.bsky.social is a global campaign working to debunk the myth that Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is a “climate-friendly” marine fuel alternative. SkyTruth partnered with the campaign in early 2024 to reveal the dangers of LNG emissions at sea.

Graphic with a dark blue and orange image as background, illustrating methane release from an LNG vessel on the water. The SkyTruth and Say No to LNG logos are at top. White text below reads "Mapping Methane Emissions from LNG Vessels at Sea"

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 24/06/2026

🌊 Our ocean is a lifeline for millions around the world. We now have the tools, treaties, and momentum to protect it at scale, and @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social is investing $260M to turn that opportunity into action. Learn more: www.bloomberg.org/press/bloomb...

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 23/06/2026

🗓️ In 1 week: Join us for the next #webinar of our quarterly series! We'll be highlighting our recently released annual report, kicking off our 25th anniversary celebration, & taking a look at the current state of our tools and technology with our new CTO. 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 18/06/2026

🗺️ Want to see where these climate-resilient corals are located? We’ve partnered with WCS to share the dataset on our 30x30 Progress Tracker, a free and interactive mapping platform. Learn more: skytruth.org/product-upda... #30x30 #coralreefs #biodiversity #ClimateOptimism #OOC11 #OurOcean

SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 18/06/2026

🪸 This week, the Wildlife Conservation Society released a new study at #OurOceanKenya that identifies coral reefs with the strongest chance at surviving the climate crisis — a bright spot of good climate news.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 17/06/2026

🇰🇪 As #OurOceanKenya is underway in Mombasa, we’re excited to share that new translations, including Swahili, are now available in both Cerulean and our 30x30 Progress Tracker! The additional translations support our ongoing goal to make our tools more accessible. 🔗 Links to both updates below 👇

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🔗 Explore for yourself here: 30x30.skytruth.org Click on the Marine tab of the statistics panel on the left. Scroll down to the section titled “Proportion of Habitat within Protected and Conserved Areas" to see the climate-resilient coral layer. #biodiversity #ClimateOptimism #OOC11 #OurOceanKenya

💻 The data is now available in our 30x30 Progress Tracker. By displaying it through high-resolution mapping, governments and stakeholders can clearly see where these reefs are located to guide local and national conservation actions and better understand how the reefs contribute to #30x30 goals.

🪸We’ve refreshed the coral layer in our 30x30 Progress Tracker to reflect data from a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Macquarie University! The study provides a comprehensive picture of coral reef resilience globally.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 14/06/2026

🇰🇪 As #OOC11 kicks off in Mombasa, Kenya, we’re pleased to share that Swahili and Bahasa translations are now available in our 30x30 Progress Tracker and Conservation Builder, making it even more accessible to a broad range of users! 🔗 Learn more: skytruth.org/product-upda...

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🪸 Known as the “Amazon of the Seas,” the #CoralTriangle is a critical marine biodiversity hotspot. As countries in Southeast Asia invest in liquified natural gas as a “clean” shipping fuel, new shipping routes and terminals pose a great pollution risk in this already-threatened region.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 12/06/2026

🌐 Access to Cerulean has expanded! Spanish, Portuguese, French, Swahili, and Indonesian translations are now available on the platform. Users can select their preferred language and immediately see it reflected on the platform and in exportable reports. See how: skytruth.org/product-upda...

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 11/06/2026

🪸 RimbaWatch just released a new report, Reefs at Risk, which reveals that 97% of marine protected areas in #Malaysia are threatened by oil and gas projects. We are proud to have provided technical support for the work! 🔗 Check it out here: bit.ly/reefs-at-ris... #coral #CoralTriangle #pollution

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 08/06/2026

🌊 In 2022, 196 countries committed to protect 30% of 🌏's land & ocean by 2030. 4 years later, we’re only at 10% of global marine protection. This #WorldOceanDay, urgent action is needed as 2030 draws near. SkyTruth’s 30x30 Progress Tracker is a step towards protection for critical marine habitats.

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SkyTruth 🛰️ @skytruth.org · 05/06/2026

🤝 We're celebrating partnerships this #WorldEnvironmentDay! 🌍 Regional Greenpeace organizations recently partnered with us to conduct joint investigations using satellite imagery and analyses to examine local marine pollution from shipping and oil and gas activity.

Screenshot of a map showing oil slicks off the coast of Bulgaria in the Bulgarian EEZ