On April 29, a rocket lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Aboard it was a satellite designed to answer one of the most important questions in climate science: how much carbon ...

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A laser-based instrument for mapping the 3-D structure of Earth’s forests has passed a major milestone toward deployment on the International Space Station (ISS). The Global Ecosystem Dynamics ...

NASA’s GEDI mission, which maps the Earth’s forests in 3D using lasers, is back in operation from a hiatus, six months earlier than expected. Since 2018, GEDI has used spaceborne laser altimeters to ...

Gabon, a Central African country slightly smaller than the state of Colorado, is home to one of the most pristine rainforests on the planet. During the two-week-long NASA campaign, a collaboration ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture. Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the oceans. To ...

New Israeli research has developed a way to monitor Israel’s forests from space, changing how forest data is collected in Israel. More than 1.5 million dunams (150,000 hectares) of Israel’s forests ...