The space agency’s ICESat-2 satellite estimates the height of trees from space, and NASA has created a new tool for citizen scientists to help confirm those measurements from the ground.

Forests protect against avalanches, but not every forest is equally effective. Thanks to almost 50 years of observations at ...

The team, including students from MSU and visiting scientists from France and Italy, gathers ground-based data, such as tree height and diameter measurements, growth from tree ring data and the ...