Technology for the Climate

SkyTruth is a nonprofit conservation technology organization that uses AI, satellite imagery and other global data to make invisible environmental problems not only visible, but actionable. Ripple helped SkyTruth launchCerulean, the first free, publicly available platform that tracks oil spills in the ocean and their potential sources, leaving polluters nowhere to hide. TechCrunch wrote this feature with an amazing headline about the launch:Cerulean empowers ocean pollution watchdogs with orbital observation. We then invited journalists to participate in an invite-only walk-through with SkyTruth’s CTO about how Cerulean can assist with their reporting, attracting climate and data journalists from the New York Times, Reuters, NPR and more. SkyTruth used Cerulean data to create two in-depth, newsworthy reports about the impacts of oil and gas in the Mediterranean and the Coral Triangle which garnered widespread high-profile attention in AFP (syndicated in 85 outlets worldwide in English, Spanish and French); plus Oceanographic Magazine, Ocean Oculus,Environment and Energy Leader, Energy News, Offshore Energy and more. Already the Financial Times, NPR, Associated Press, New York Times and other high-profile media outlets have used Cerulean for their own investigations.