How scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space
To start, the US has significant military infrastructure in Alaska: It’s home to six military bases and 49 National Guard posts, as well as 21...
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The Download: The desert data center boom, and how to measure Earth’s elevations
In the high desert east of Reno, Nevada, construction crews are flattening the golden foothills of the Virginia Range, laying the foundations of a data...
The world’s biggest space-based radar will measure Earth’s forests from orbit
These indirect systems rely on a combination of field sampling—foresters roaming among the trees to measure their height and diameter—and remote sensing technologies like lidar...