Satellites Can Now Detect a City’s Hidden Vital Signs Before Humans Notice
A new satellite-based framework allows scientists to measure the changing rhythms of cities in near real time.
Botany Meets Robotics in Alpine Scree Monitoring
According to the European Union's Habitat Directive, habitat monitoring plays a critical role in response to the escalating problems posed by biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. Scree habitats, hosting unique and often endangered species, face severe threats from climate change due to their high-altitude nature.…
NASA Study: Crops, Forests Responding to Changing Rainfall Patterns
A new NASA-led study has found that how rain falls in a given year is nearly as important to the world’s vegetation as how much. Reporting Dec. 11 in Nature, the researchers showed that even in years with similar rainfall totals, plants fared differently when…