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Scientists are using lasers to accurately "weigh" trees in the tropical rainforests.
The researchers, from University College London and the National Physical Laboratory created an animation of their laser-scanned trees, which they presented at the British Ecological Society meeting in Liverpool.
The method could help to monitor and combat deforestation by more accurately calculating how much carbon is locked within the rainforests, so a financial value can be assigned to in-tact forests.
A large-scale field assessment of carbon stocks in human-modified tropical forests (open, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12627) (DX)
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @04:51AM
It's not like there are *no* trees in England...
I used to visit a friend on an estate in one of the little villages outside Bath. The owner's great-grandfather (1800s) had been to California and brought back some redwood & sequoia seeds (or seedlings, I never got the full story). Anyway, they liked the southern England climate and are now huge.