Today (29th of April) at 10:15 AM (BST) the BIOMASS satellite was successfully launched from Kourou in French Guiana. Its aim is to enhance our understanding of how forests across the globe contribute to the carbon cycle.
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How conversations over coffee can spark climate discoveries!
As a distributed research centre, NCEO brings together over 150 experts from renowned UK universities and institutions. We’re eager to share their ground-breaking work and experiences—not just to highlight the science, but to spark though-provoking conversations that challenge research.
Prof Richard Allan’s recent blog, originally published by the University of Reading, reflects on a casual conversation with NCEO colleague Prof Chris Merchant that led to new insights into Earth’s growing energy imbalance — and what that means for our warming oceans.
Human fingerprint on forest disturbance patterns as viewed from space
Dr Nezha Acil, an NCEO research scientist based at the University of Leicester, is the lead author in a study recently published in Nature Sustainability that analysed global forest disturbance patterns from 2002 to 2014 using satellite data.