In the ongoing battle against climate change, quantifying the carbon locked within trees is essential for tracking the effectiveness of our mitigation efforts. A new study presents a method for ...

In a pioneering effort to enhance our understanding of carbon storage in wetland ecosystems, researchers are utilizing advanced satellite technology to estimate carbon stocks in the reed wetlands of ...

Tamil Nadu has about 90sqkm of mangroves, 800sqkm of seagrass beds and 64sqkm of tidal marshlands. But, really, no one knows for sure. The ecosystems remain poorly mapped, and figures, largely derived ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists have used high-resolution satellite images to create a map of global canopy heights, and to also develop an AI model that can predict ...

A recent study has mapped the locations of 9.9 billion trees across Africa’s drylands, a region below the Sahara Desert and north of the equator. The research, which combined satellite mapping, ...

Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), a global environmental organization dedicated to conserving the lands and ...

The world’s oceans are home to different habitats that capture and store carbon – known as “blue carbon”. These include habitats that are typically found along coastlines, such as salt marshes and ...

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. I recently spent a sunny morning aboard Falcon Spirit, a ...