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Measuring Carbon and Trees in the Tropics

New maps show an estimate of the carbon stored in tropical forests and how sure scientists are about those estimates.


NASA Earth Observatory map by Robert Simmon, using data from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Tropical Forest Mapping Project. Caption by Michael Carlowicz.

Published January 18, 2012
Data acquired January 1 - December 31, 2000

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