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A New Satellite Will Map the Carbon Content of Rainforests From Space, and It’s Set to Launch This Month
The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...
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Ravaged jungle: Just 25% of the world's surviving tropical rainforests are in good condition
Barely 25% of the world's remaining tropical rainforests are still of high quality ... condition and overlaid our results with a map of major industrial human pressures such as expansion of ...
Canada's National Observer7d
Space probe to map carbon content of world’s remotest tropical forests
Tropical forests play a crucial role in protecting the planet from some of the worst effects of global warming because they ...
Space probe to assess health of forests from Earth's orbit
ESA/M.PedoussautThis space probe will soon be sent into orbit to help scientists uncover the health of our world’s densest rainforests.:: ESA/ATG Media LabAttached to the European Space Agency's ...
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Tropical rainforests
Tropical rainforests are ... aims to protect the world’s forests. This happens when a country’s debt is reduced in exchange for rainforest conservation (protecting the forests from harm).
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Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning ...
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Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
The publication of the Nomination file, including the maps and names, does not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever of the World Heritage Committee or of the Secretariat of UNESCO concerning ...