Kicking off with the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE), which was launched in March 2009, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth Explorer missions are intended to ...

Having a large-scale boreal forest biomass inventory would allow scientists to understand better the carbon cycle and to predict more accurately Earth's future climate. However, obtaining these maps ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write at the intersection of energy, climate and business. Last month, a national lab issued a set of colorful maps that reveal ...

Climate change can be tackled from space, too. The European Space Agency (ESA) will soon launch a forest-measuring satellite that will monitor tropical rainforests with the help of a long-wavelength ...

NASA’s GEDI mission has reached a major milestone with the release of its newest data product, which provides the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest biomass and the carbon it stores – ...

Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, ESA’s Biomass Earth Explorer satellite mission delivers completely new information on forest height and above-ground forest biomass from space. This ...

In the last several hundred years, human activity has shifted large quantities of the world’s carbon from long-term storage (i.e. carbon bound up in rocks, fossil fuels, and forests) into forms of ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has become the first African country to build a national biomass map using LiDAR, furthering the scientific underpinning of their REDD+ processes. WWF-DRC launched the ...

A commission created by the 127th Legislature to study the economic, environmental and energy benefits of Maine's biomass industry has delivered its final report to two legislative committees with 15 ...