NASA - Map Depicts Global Forest Heights

First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights

Using NASA satellite data, scientists have produced a first-of-its kind map that details the height of the world’s forests. Although there are other local- and regional-scale forest canopy maps, the new map is the first that spans the entire globe based on one uniform method.



...Scientific interest in the new map goes far beyond curiosities about tree height. The map has implications for an ongoing effort to estimate the amount of carbon tied up in Earth’s forests and for explaining what sops up 2 billion tons of “missing” carbon each year.

Humans release about 7 billion tons of carbon annually, mostly in the form of carbon dioxide. Of that, 3 billion tons end up in the atmosphere and 2 billion tons in the ocean. It’s unclear where the last two billion tons of carbon go, though scientists suspect forests capture and store much of it as biomass through photosynthesis...

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Space Monkey, Coming Home

And what does he find...

Space Monkey from Leo Burnett on Vimeo.

Love the song, "Divine Mother of the Universe".
“Space Monkey”, a public awareness ad campaign created by World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

From LS.

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Happy Earth Day!

Try to do something nice for your Mother Earth today.

Planet earth from Apollo 17, Dec. 7, 1972.

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Images | Nature

From Imaging a Shattered Earth.





John Ganis, Alaska Pipeline, North of Valdez, Alaska, 2001.












Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, "The Guardian", 2003.



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