This color-coded map shows how plant growth and the carbon plants store changed between 2000 and 2009.
Published Aug 21, 2010
By providing a measurement of all of the carbon being stored in Earth’s plants, maps like these help scientists figure out what happens to the carbon people release by burning fossil fuels.
Published Jul 8, 2011
This map of plant photosynthesis was the first of its kind from the MODIS instrument, which was launched in December 1999 on the Terra spacecraft.
Published Jun 5, 2000
Compared to a photo-like image, a false-color image of the lake-dotted tundra near Barrow, Alaska, reveals more detail about the different plant communities occupying wetter or drier areas of the landscape.
Published Oct 22, 2009
New satellite-based research suggests that mule deer mothers are in tune with their environment, with reproduction patterns closely matching the cycles of plant growth in their habitat.
Published Mar 22, 2016
Watch primary producers—plants and phytoplankton—transform Earth’s landmasses and oceans over 12 months.
Published Dec 12, 2014
The 500-megawatt Núñez de Balboa photovoltaic plant in Spain will supply energy to 250,000 people per year.
Published Mar 7, 2020
Scientists have tested a new method for monitoring the health of vegetation by measuring fluorescent light emissions that the human eye cannot detect.
Published Jun 21, 2011
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 has compiled its first year of data and started quantifying the cycles of emission and absorption of the greenhouse gas.
Published Dec 12, 2015
