Gigantic iceberg breaks off George VI Ice Shelf, exposing century-old underwater ecosystem with Antarctic sponges and corals.

The aim is for the satellite to measure the Earth's forests, icebergs and deserts as part of a climate-change study.

A satellite with a 40-foot extendable antenna has launched into space with a giant mission: to map all of the world’s forests — ecosystems that are crucial for absorbing carbon and slowing ...

ESA launches Biomass satellite with a massive radar umbrella to revolutionize forest carbon tracking from space. Its ...

Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a scenario for a science fiction movie, but the ...

From its orbit at an altitude of 666 kilometres, the satellite will continuously produce global maps, enabling climate scientists to monitor changes and developments in the world’s forests.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has blasted its Biomass satellite into space — and it could change everything we know about ...

The forest-monitoring satellite Biomass was developed, built and tested by Airbus in Stevenage, Friedrichshafen in Germany and Toulouse in France. It will use a revolutionary radar instrument to scan ...

Mapping the world's forests, said to include some 1.5 trillion trees, is a big, big job—one that will be made a whole lot ...

The Airbus built forest monitoring satellite Biomass has been successfully launched into orbit. A European Space ...