Record Amazon deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon rose to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year.
Deforestation in the Amazon rose to record levels for the month of April, nearly doubling the area of forest removed in that month last year.
As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of great importance to the world’s climate and water resources.
The ESA and NASA have released the first globally harmonized assessment of above ground biomass. The Multi-Mission Algorithm and Analysis Platform (MAAP) provides seamless access to above ground biomass information from both ESA and NASA Earth observation data.
The Climate Change from Space Kit is an interactive PDF that explains the different variables that affect climate change and describes how ESA measures them from space.
After a successful trial run in May, a NASA campaign is deploying aircraft, a research vessel and several kinds of autonomous ocean robots to study small ocean whirlpools, eddies and currents.
Landsat-9 is a continuation of a series of Earth-observing spacecraft that started almost 50 years ago. No other remote-sensing system has kept a longer, continuos record of the changing condition of our planet.