ESA's Biomass satellite has finished commissioning and is opening its global forest archive — letting any researcher pull P-band radar measurements that finally see past the canopy to the trunks where most of a forest's carbon actually lives.

Biodiversity — A 2026 horizon scan in Trends in Ecology & Evolution flags fifteen emerging conservation issues and argues that without refreshed, machine-readable baselines new pressures will only be caught after the damage is irreversible. IPBES adds, via IUCN, that the Kunming-Montreal framework cannot be met without a shared measurement language for nature across firms and finance — the problem now is not more pledges but a common audit basis.

Craftsmanship & material — A SAGE / IOS Press paper formalises hybrid human–AI systems for safeguarding cr ...