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

The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of ...

Forest carbon’s role in climate change mitigation is a hot topic these days, at least in the forestry world. As with many issues, a confusing miasma of information floats around the media. The planet ...

Using instruments on board, the Biomass satellite will be able to measure the woody trunks, branches and stems where carbon ...

Dead trees in streams store surprising amounts of carbon, offering an overlooked tool in the fight against climate change.

The company planting a new, 600,000-tree commercial forest says it wants to improve wildlife habitats, open land up to the ...

The satellite is scheduled to lift off on April 29 aboard a Vega C rocket from the ESA’s Korou spaceport in French Guiana ...

The carbon storage capacity of forests is widely recognized as a crucial factor in curbing global warming and preventing climate catastrophe. But a new study finds that the future potential for forest ...

In young accruing forests, the response of primary productivity ... potential for positive and negative feedbacks between the carbon cycle and the climate system, and therefore need to be ...

A recent report by Norwegian scientists highlighted that natural forests play a superior role in regulating the carbon cycle ...

In the past, intact forests absorbed 7.8 billion metric tons of CO 2 annually—about a fifth of all human emissions—but their carbon storage is increasingly at risk from climate change and ...

Papua New Guinea will "immediately" lift a ban on forest carbon credit schemes, the Pacific nation's climate minister told ...