The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture.

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Tropical forests play a crucial role in protecting the planet from some of the worst effects of global warming because they ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

The SWOT satellite, short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography, is a collaboration ... including in regions off Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Purple areas highlight lower ...

"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...

As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the ocean floor, using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar technology — sound waves that bounce off the bottom — to measure depth. But the ...