{"id":221892,"date":"2025-06-28T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221892\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T17:38:16","slug":"beneath-the-canopy-pioneering-satellite-reveals-rainforests-hidden-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/221892\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests&#8217; hidden worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sm-text__text\">The world\u2019s rainforests are vital for our survival. They cover just 6% of the world\u2019s land, yet host half of the planet\u2019s species and store billions of tonnes of planet-warming gases, helping to mitigate climate change. <\/p>\n<p>But rainforests are dense and sprawling. Scientists have struggled to understand what lies beneath the treetops because even the most powerful satellites cannot penetrate their thick canopies &#8211; until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s rainforests are vital for our survival. They cover just 6% of the world\u2019s land, yet host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15,21994,21995,21993],"class_list":{"0":"post-221892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-visual-journalism","13":"tag-visualjournalism","14":"tag-vj"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114762213382488126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}