Environment

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(CNN) -- Scientists have produced the first worldwide map showing the height of forests using data from NASA satellites.

 

The map will help scientists work out how much carbon is locked up in forests and how quickly that carbon cycles through the eco-system and back into the atmosphere.

 

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NASA images used to map world's tree heights

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Man we need more trees.

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