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

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 ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica ... they could act as a sort of road map for finding alien life on other worlds. Sharper satellite images helped form the backbone of Bedmap3 ...

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

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

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 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 ...