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Month: August 2010

News Archive

Root of the Matter: A New Map Shows Decline of Life-Saving Forests

August 28, 2010

Contributor: Gretchen Cook-Anderson, NASA‘s Earth Science News Team Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami

Landsat Enables World’s Most Comprehensive Mangrove Assessment

August 18, 2010

By Laura E.P. Rocchio The most definitive map of Earth’s mangrove forests has been created with Landsat data. A group of scientists, led by Chandra