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The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over part of the Mekong Delta – a major rice-producing region in southwest Vietnam. In Vietnam, rice has been…
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kuwait in the Middle East. With a total area of around 17 800 sq km, Kuwait is considered…
A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling at a once overlooked contributor to local coastal ecosystems —…
Recent data have shown a decline of air pollution over northern Italy coinciding with its nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19)….
Stratospheric aerosol geoengineering is the idea that adding a layer of aerosol particles to the upper atmosphere can reduce climate changes caused by greenhouse gases…
Opening plastic packaging, such as plastic bags and bottles may contribute to the generation of small amounts of microplastics — small plastic particles less than…
Tropical forest ecosystems are an important part of the global carbon cycle as they take up and store large amounts of CO2. It is however…
The two regions have lost 6.4 trillion tons of ice in three decades; unabated, this rate of melting could cause flooding that affects hundreds of…
Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change. In 2016, scientists at MIT and elsewhere observed…
New Mitigation Strategy Bears Great Potential Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large additional quantities of greenhouse gases could be released,…