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Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Kim. Today is Thursday, May 1st, 2025.

And we begin with a groundbreaking new way to weigh the world's rainforests and measure the impacts of climate change.

The European Space Agency launched a first-of-a-kind

satellite Tuesday that uses a special radar system to look deeper into the world's forests

and learn about the branches and trunks beneath the canopy. According to a geophysicist from

Airbus, a company that helped build the satellite. Most radars take wonderful images

of icebergs, but when they look at forests, they see the tops, the little twigs, the little leaves,

they don't penetrate down. That makes it difficult to know just how much planet-warming carbon dioxide

is stored in the world's 1.5 trillion trees. This new 1.2-ton satellite, with its 12-meter

deployable antenna, however, operates similar to a CT scan and can give scientists a fuller

picture of how rainforests store carbon and the impact of deforestation. According to the BBC,

the Amazon is one of the first rainforests, the new satellite, nicknamed Space Brawley, will study.

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