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Climate Change News 6 June 2025 - 27 June 2025

Scanning the Canopy: ESA’s Biomass Radar Craft Maps Global Forest Carbon with P‑Band Vision

Biomass was selected in May 2013 as ESA’s seventh Earth Explorer mission to quantify forest carbon from space. The mission uses a P-band synthetic aperture radar at ~435 MHz (about 70 cm

27 June 2025

EU Declares War on Space Junk: A Deep Dive into the New Space Act, the Starlink Dilemma and the Hidden Climate Costs of Orbital Debris

The EU Space Act was presented on 25 June 2025 and would impose EU-wide rules on launch licensing, debris-mitigation, end-of-life disposal, cybersecurity and environmental impact, with fines up to 2% of global

25 June 2025

Climate Change · Environmental Impact · Satellite Technology · Space · Space Law · Space Policy

Laser vs. Radar: Shocking Secrets of Earth’s Shrinking Ice Revealed from Space

ICESat-2 (NASA) launched September 15, 2018 on a Delta II rocket and carries the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS), a photon-counting laser that operates from a ~481 km near-polar orbit (92°)

23 June 2025

Climate Change · Earth Observation · Laser Technology · Radar · Satellite Imaging · Space

Sky Watchers: The 2025–2033 Boom in Weather & Climate Satellite Constellations

Over 5,400 Earth observation satellites are projected to be launched globally from 2024 to 2033, nearly triple the previous decade. NOAA’s GeoXO program will deploy at least three geostationary satellites (with options

21 June 2025

2025-2033 Trends · Climate Change · Satellite Constellations · Space Technology · Weather Satellites

Wildfires Beware: How AI is Predicting and Preventing Forest Infernos

FireSat, a Google Research–led constellation with the Earth Fire Alliance, will refresh every 20 minutes and use onboard AI to detect fires as small as a 5×5 meter patch (25 m²); the

18 June 2025

Artificial Intelligence · Climate Change · Disaster Prevention · Environmental Tech · Wildfires

Eyes in the Sky: How Satellites Are Revealing Our Changing Climate

Radar altimeters on TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich have provided a global mean sea level record since 1992, showing a rise of about 3.3 millimeters per year and roughly

6 June 2025

Climate Change · Environment · Satellites · Science · Technology

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