NASA to 3D map the world’s forests using space lasers

Grist
By Kate YoderMar 9, 2016, 2:30 pm81 pts
Trees have been making a valiant effort to gobble up the carbon dioxide we’ve been haphazardly spewing into the atmosphere — and you might think that, by now, we should have a pretty good estimate of how much CO2 our planet’s forests hold. But it turns out that we don’t. Without a clear map of the…

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