Research Areas
Earthwatch volunteers partner with leading scientists in the field to conduct valuable research that makes a difference in the world across four vital areas:
- Climate Change - Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges to the planet. Earthwatch supports research that improves the understanding of how climate change is affecting different environments, and they find ways to help communities migrate the impacts and/or adapt to the changes.
- Cultural Heritage - This research shines a light on the combined genetic, ecological, cultural, and linguistic variation discovered in the native biological and cultural communities. These research programs unearth the past in a way that safeguards the future.
- Habitat - The goal of this research is to enhance and protect biodiversity in global ecosystems that provide valuable goods and services, such as clean drinking water, food, timber and medicines.
- Ocean Health - This research seeks to protect marine biodiversity with a focus on those parts of the ocean most quickly impacted by society, such as the highly threatened coastal habitats including mangroves and coral reefs.
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