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Environment
Martin M Barillas

BIZARRE: To boldly grow nasa tracks earths forest canopy from space - What They Never Told You

Illustrative image: A view of Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon, the USA. (Steven Sobieszczyk, U.S. Geological Survey/Zenger)

NASA has announced that it has made a near-global estimate of forest biomass and the carbon it stores, thanks to its Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI).

Until now, scientists had faced a significant gap in data on climate change by not having this information to hand.

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