Nov 9, 2020
Researchers mapped out 1.8 billion individual tree canopies across millions of kilometers of West Africa’s Sahel and Sahara regions. It’s the first survey ever to map out trees in detail over such a vast area of land. How did they map out so many trees? A team analyzed a massive...
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