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24 July 2026
The Sundarbans: A Forest Between Tides
Exploring the world’s largest mangrove forest through the Global Ecosystems Atlas — where intertidal forests, tidal marshes and shrimp ponds meet.
24 July 2026
The Green Lung Under Pressure (cool)
Tracking the Congo Basin’s peat-rich rainforests — the second-largest tropical forest on Earth and its most overlooked carbon store.
24 July 2026
Blue Carbon: The Meadows Beneath the Waves
Seagrass meadows store carbon faster than forests and shelter a quarter of coastal fisheries — yet they are among the least mapped ecosystems on Earth.
24 July 2026
A Thawing Archive
Polar tundra, glaciers and permafrost are changing faster than any other biome — and the atlas is watching the transition pixel by pixel.
24 July 2026
Where the Desert Meets the Nile
A thin green thread through the largest hot desert on Earth — how the atlas resolves one of the sharpest ecosystem boundaries in the world.