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Closeup on Forests of the Pacific Northwest
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Closeup on Forests of the Pacific Northwest

A new map of the biomass in the United States allows scientists and land managers to see tree cover down to the scale of individual plots of land.

Published Feb 17, 2012

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A Year in the Life of Carbon Dioxide
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A Year in the Life of Carbon Dioxide

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

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Counting the Carbon in Mexico’s Forests
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Counting the Carbon in Mexico’s Forests

Mapping the density and location of tree cover can help the nation reduce deforestation and offset carbon emissions.

Published Nov 5, 2015

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OCO-2 Lifts Off
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OCO-2 Lifts Off

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) may help scientists answer key questions about how carbon cycles between Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, and land.

Published Jul 3, 2014

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A Global Garden: Plants Storing Carbon
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A Global Garden: Plants Storing Carbon

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

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Measuring Carbon and Trees in the Tropics
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Measuring Carbon and Trees in the Tropics

New maps show an estimate of the carbon stored in tropical forests and how sure scientists are about those estimates.

Published Jan 18, 2012

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Corridors for Carbon and Critters
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Corridors for Carbon and Critters

Researchers studying tropical forests have mapped out a way to preserve significant amounts of carbon-rich vegetation and biodiversity by connecting existing protected areas.

Published Apr 2, 2014

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Permafrost Becoming a Carbon Source Instead of a Sink
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Permafrost Becoming a Carbon Source Instead of a Sink

As global and regional warming continues, winter emissions of carbon dioxide from Arctic lands are offsetting what plants absorb in the summer.

Published Nov 19, 2019

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Counting Carbon Over Southern California
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Counting Carbon Over Southern California

NASA’s new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 calibrated its sensors by taking data from an area where ground stations could provide ground truth.

Published Nov 7, 2014

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Satellite Detects Human Contribution to Atmospheric CO2
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Satellite Detects Human Contribution to Atmospheric CO2

Measurements from OCO-2 will provide a baseline for monitoring changes in emissions.

Published Nov 17, 2016

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New Satellite-Based Maps of Mangrove Heights
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New Satellite-Based Maps of Mangrove Heights

Mangrove forests are among the planet’s best carbon scrubbers.

Published Feb 27, 2019

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A New Measuring Stick for Forests
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A New Measuring Stick for Forests

The amount of carbon that is being stored by trees and how it has changed over time is the least understood aspect of the global carbon cycle.

Published Jan 27, 2020

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Gabon’s Towering Mangroves
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Gabon’s Towering Mangroves

The mangroves in Pongara National Park are among the tallest in the world, towering up to 60 meters.

Published May 19, 2017

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Mapping Forest Loss with Landsat
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Mapping Forest Loss with Landsat

The opening of the Landsat data archive and a partnership with Google has allowed researchers to track the fine details of forest change around the world.

Published May 7, 2015

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Carbon Eaters on the Black Sea
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Carbon Eaters on the Black Sea

Satellites observe a massive bloom of coccolithophore plankton in July 2012.

Published Jul 31, 2012

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Where the Trees Are
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Where the Trees Are

The National Biomass and Carbon Dataset reveals the location and the carbon storage of forests in the United States.

Published Jan 11, 2012

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Forest Canopy Heights Across the United States
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Forest Canopy Heights Across the United States

From the Pacific Northwest—home of the towering redwoods&mdash to the Southern Appalachians, this map shows forest canopy heights across the United States.

Published Jul 22, 2010

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Gross Primary Productivity
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Gross Primary Productivity

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

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Faint Glow, Clear Signal from Plants
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Faint Glow, Clear Signal from Plants

As scientists detect plant fluorescence in better detail, they inch closer to helping farmers respond to extreme weather and close in on understanding how carbon cycles through ecosystems.

Published Jul 10, 2020

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NASA’s New Carbon Counter Collects Its First Data
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NASA’s New Carbon Counter Collects Its First Data

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 will help scientists quantify the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Published Aug 12, 2014

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When a Definition Makes a Forest Disappear
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When a Definition Makes a Forest Disappear

By changing a percentage, institutions can take some forested lands off the map.

Published Dec 18, 2015

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