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Telltale Greenhouse Gases Could Signal Alien Terraforming Activity

by Keith CowingJune 26, 2024June 26, 2024

If aliens modified a planet in their solar system to make it warmer, we’d be able to tell. A new UC Riverside study identifies the artificial greenhouse gases that would […]

Spatial pattern of CMLR GPP on 29 July 2019 at a 0.05° resolution. (A) The global map of CMLR GPP. (B) The GPP pattern in the Nile Delta. (C) The GPP pattern in the Mississippi River. The 8-day composited dataset was used for global mapping. CREDIT Journal of Remote Sensing

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Habitable World Assays: New Satellite Dataset Sheds Light On Earth’s Plant Growth

by Keith CowingApril 2, 2024April 2, 2024

In the field of environmental and climate science, researchers have developed the Comprehensive Mechanistic Light Response (CMLR) gross primary production (GPP) dataset. Derived from the TROPOMI satellite’s solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence […]