{"id":697994,"date":"2021-08-04T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=697994"},"modified":"2021-08-04T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:20:00","slug":"russias-forests-store-more-carbon-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=697994","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s forests store more carbon than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Above_ground_biomass_in_Russia_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Above ground biomass in Russia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world&#8217;s trees. A new study, led by Russian scientists using data from ESA\u2019s Climate Change Initiative, has produced new estimates of biomass contained in Russian forests, and confirms that the vast forested area is storing more carbon than previously estimated.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Space_for_our_climate\/Russia_s_forests_store_more_carbon_than_previously_thought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Russia\u2019s forests store more carbon than previously thought<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world&#8217;s trees. A new study, led by Russian scientists using data from ESA\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697995,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/697995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}