February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... destruction. There are other hazards from space, including the human-generated problem of orbital debris. Even climate change - a complex issue that involves the interaction of human industry and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... Budget Office of the US Congress, the vast amount of carbon stored in forests worldwide indicates their important role in climate change. The trees in forests are estimated to store the equivalent of roughly 760 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
... Earth’s environment is a top agenda topic today and we have a worldwide grouping of nations seeking to limit the impact of climate change via CO2 emission controls – all monitored from space, of course. Section cropped from a panorama known as Plus...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... aspirations set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are in jeopardy.” A few years marked by a pandemic, climate change events and a global recession resulted in the growth of aggressive nationalism that has influenced the approach and...
