Cold War spy images get a second life

The World

During the Cold War, the US took hundreds of thousands of surveillance images of the former Soviet Union using spy satellites. Decades later, those images are getting a second life: researchers at Humboldt University in Berlin are using them to track species decline. Host Marco Werman speaks to ecologist and geographer Catalina Munteanu.

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