November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
... tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) worldwide - over 100 times the United States’ emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in 2009. Most of the locations that are rich in forest carbon are in tropical countries. Preserving forests - by slowing...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
...analysis at various levels of projects, initiatives and decision-making. Starting in the atmosphere, satellites can detect levels of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, and what impact rising levels are having on humans, animals and...
August 2018
UAE’s ambitious plans for space sector growth
... as university programmes, university missions and also several environmental missions, that will be aimed at detecting greenhouse gases. Our second key programme is the Emirates Mars Exploration programme, which is managed jointly between ourselves...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
... cancer threats and reduce global warming effects for some decades to come. Given the ongoing build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs), ‘dirty’ human manufacturing and use of carbon-based energy sources, this is not a permanent solution but...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
...of nearly 100 percent, not suffering from intermittencies experienced by terrestrial solar and wind power; it produces no greenhouse gases, radioactive waste, pollution, or scarring of the Earth for resources; and from geostationary orbit, it is most...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... - thus enabling millions, even billions of people to climb out of poverty. Space solar power does not emit greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, and has none of the environmental problems of coal, oil, natural gas or nuclear...
