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In environmental science, innovation often comes out of necessity. For ecologist and researcher Dr. Mubarak Mahmud, whose areas of expertise are forestry, agroforestry, and climate change adaptation, ...
Scientists have created the first global map of forest height using satellite data. The map will improve estimates of how much carbon is stored in Earth’s trees and how much carbon dioxide they absorb ...
Dr. Mubark Mahmud PhD, an environmental researcher originally from Kano State and now residing in France, has developed a groundbreaking technique for measuring tree height, now recognised as the ...
A measure to enhance tree preservation in Fairfax County was unanimously approved Feb. 11 by the Board of Supervisors, giving builders mathematical incentives to save existing trees rather than ...
No existing species of tree can grow higher than 130 meters (427 feet). So declares a Nature article by plant physiologist-ecologist George W. Koch of Northern Arizona University and three colleagues ...
The local firm may have found a way to calculate how much carbon is sequestered in trees just by analyzing satellite images You can’t manage what you can’t measure, the saying goes. North Vancouver ...