The forest-height map could aid the ongoing effort to estimate the amount of carbon tied up in Earth’s forests and to explain what sops up 2 billion tonnes of “missing” carbon each year. Humans ...

The resulting map, which will be published in Geophysical Research Letters, gives the tree height of all of the world’s forests. “As these maps improve, they are going to give us our first ...

Data collected by the Jason-3 satellite has been used to create the probe's very first complete science map of global sea surface height. Currently at the beginning of its operational life, the ...

The new forest height map is a step toward a global map of all above-ground biomass. Sassan Saatchi, senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, ...

The map was first published in 2010 by Michael Lefsky of Colorado State University and updated last year by Marc Simard of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It is based on […] Forest height in ...

Height is one of the most noticeable physical traits and is shaped by both genetics and environment. ... Global study links ...

While the map aims to establish and serve as a baseline for conservation initiatives, the AI model could be used to predict canopy heights in areas where high-quality data aren’t available.

More information: A. Papadopoulou et al, Insights from the largest diverse ancestry sex-specific disease map for genetically predicted height, npj Genomic Medicine (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41525-025 ...

While 1.18 changed how deep players can go, it is worth noting that it also completely overhauled the world height map in its entirety. The top of the world was raised from Y=255 all the way up to ...

The map revealed that 39% of the world’s adults were overweight or obese — and 68% of Americans fell into those categories. It also showed that not one single country saw a decrease in obesity ...