{"id":707233,"date":"2021-11-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707233"},"modified":"2021-11-04T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T09:00:00","slug":"biomass-weighing-earths-forest-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707233","title":{"rendered":"Biomass: weighing Earth\u2019s forest from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Biomass_weighing_Earth_s_forest_from_space_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Around 30% of Earth\u2019s land surface is covered by forest. Absorbing around 8 Gigatonnes a year of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, forests play a crucial role in the carbon cycle and climate system. ESA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Biomass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Biomass mission<\/a>\u00a0will measure forest biomass and will lead to a better understanding of the state of Earth\u2019s forests, how they are changing over time, and advance our knowledge of the carbon cycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/11\/Biomass_weighing_Earth_s_forest_from_space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Biomass: weighing Earth\u2019s forest from space<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 30% of Earth\u2019s land surface is covered by forest. Absorbing around 8 Gigatonnes a year of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, forests play a crucial role in the carbon&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707234,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707233","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=707233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/707234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}