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“Already these so-called #greenfield developments — houses built on previously #BareLand, just as the name suggests — are changing the #terrain of #Australia’s #cities.

The new #developments are easy to spot from the street, or the air, thanks to the sea of grey roof tiles.

Where once #ResidentialDevelopment was concentrated around #economic centres, now it’s #bulging outwards to an extent that the connection to city-living is tenuous at best.”

The barely mentioned issue that needs to be addressed, #population and #planning.

#AusPol / #cities / #land / #LandUse <abc.net.au/news/2025-04-30/fed>

ABC News · Caught between a promise and paradise in Australia's housing borderlandsVon Maani Truu
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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

Landsat At Work – Better Wireless Communication - National Land Cover Database (NLCD), Based On Landsat, Helps Plan Clear Signal
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usgs.gov/landsat-missions <-- shared about Landsat
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #Landsat #remotesensing #satellite #earthobservation #fedscience #usecase #USGS #EROS #cellphone #mobilephone #telecommunications #communications #cost #benefit #wireless #towers #antennas #landcover #landuse #NLCD #radio #frequency #siting #lineofsight #clutter #economics #risk #hazard #signal #signalquality #USA #value #returnoninvestment
@USGS @USGS_EROS

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Akshay

On 29 April, the European Space Agency will launch its “Biomass” satellite mission, monitoring global forests and their uptake of CO2.

Exciting!

esa.int/Applications/Observing

www.esa.intA new space age for forests – but groundwork still mattersA new era of forest monitoring is quite literally taking off, ushering in what scientists are calling the ‘forest space age’. On April 29, ESA will launch its revolutionary Biomass mission, the first satellite to carry a P-band radar into space – technology that is set to transform how we understand forests and the carbon they store. Along with other space agencies’ instruments already in orbit or soon to be launched, there has never been so many ‘eyes in the sky’ focused on forests.Yet, the work of people on the ground –often in the most remote and challenging forest regions – also remains essential.
#Space#Forests#Biomass
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Calishat

#corn #agriculture #LandUse #solar

'In a paper published April 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found that putting solar facilities on just 3.2% of land currently used for corn-ethanol crops would increase the production of utility-scale solar energy from 3.9% to 13%. '

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/

Cornell ChronicleTrading some corn-ethanol land for solar offers ‘tremendous opportunity’ | Cornell ChronicleIn the U.S., strategically converting a small fraction of land used to grow corn for ethanol to solar facilities could vastly increase energy production per hectare, as well as provide ecological benefits and financial resiliency for farmers.
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Panethos

America’s loneliest Amtrak stations in FY 2023

Listed below are the 15 loneliest Amtrak stations across the country based on their number of passengers for fiscal year 2023. Nearly all of the places listed are in rural areas. The largest city on the list is New Iberia, Louisiana with just over 27,000 residents in 2023. Indiana and West Virginia both have three stations on the list while Montana and Louisiana have two each.

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Most striking about this data, is that nearly half (47 percent) of the loneliest stations are along one Amtrak corridor — the Cardinal, which is a scenic arcing rail route which runs between Chicago-Indy-Cincinnati-Charlottesville-Washington DC-New York City! Why this is beyond the line traveling through many rural areas in the Appalachian Mountains and it being rather circuitous compared to more direct Chicago to New York rail routes is unclear.

The Cardinal Amtrak rail corridor – Source: amtrak.com

Somewhat surprising are the numbers from Dyer, Indiana as well as Browning and Essex, Montana. Dyer is a suburb of Chicago, while Browning and Essex are located close to Glacier National Park. From the data, it appears most visitors to Glacier utilize the East and West Park Stations instead of nearby towns.

One town whose numbers are currently low, but likely had much highest tallies in the past is Rensselaer, Indiana. The town is home to the reopened St. Josephs College and once home of the Chicago Bears Training Camp. St. Joseph College closed down between 2017 and 2021 and is still rebuilding its academic programs. Meanwhile the Chicago Bears held their training camp at St. Joseph’s College from 1944 to 1974.

As the popularity of rail travel increases, hopefully additional passengers will choose to ride Amtrak to/from these lonelier stations. Regardless, for some of these towns, the train is the only intercity passenger service they have. For example, none of the three towns in West Virginia have current bus service from Trailways or Greyhound, nor do Browning and Essex in Montana. The same is true for Connersville, Schriever, Wishram, and Arcadia. That accounts for 60 percent of the list. As a result, the Amtrak provides a vital link for residents and businesses of these communities.

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  1. Montgomery, West Virginia = 266 passengers

2. Alderson, West Virginia = 399 passengers

3. Thurmond, West Virginia = 466 passengers

4. Rensselaer, Indiana = 509 passengers

5. Connersville, Indiana = 528 passengers

6. Lordsburg, New Mexico = 688 passengers

7. South Shore, Kentucky = 870 passengers

8. Schriever, Louisiana = 912 passengers

9. Browning, Montana = 935 passengers

10. Dyer, Indiana = 989 passengers

11. Essex, Montana = 1,009 passengers

12. Wishram, Washington = 1,072 passengers

13. New Iberia, Louisiana = 1,078 passengers

14. Lamar, Colorado = 1,138 passengers

15. Arcadia, Missouri = 1,228 passengers

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#AMTRAK#bus#cities
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Akshay

Why Brazil, a country with 12% of the world’s fresh water, faces a water crisis:

“But it is Brazil's role as an agribusiness powerhouse that threatens the nature that provides it with so much water.”

Climate change too of course. But rainforests and natural savannah preserve the water.

dw.com/en/why-brazil-faces-a-w

Deutsche Welle · Why Brazil faces a water crisisVon Beatrice Christofaro
#Water#Brazil#Bresil
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Akshay

“Indonesia plans to clear forests about the size of Belgium to produce sugarcane-derived bioethanol, rice and other food crops, potentially displacing Indigenous groups who rely on the land to survive.”

apnews.com/article/bioethanol-

AP News · World's largest deforestation project fells forests for bioethanol fuel, sugar and rice in IndonesiaVon Victoria Milko
#Climate#Deforestation#Rainforest
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Akshay

Commentary about:

“Brazil’s escalating forest fire crisis, highlighting a record 237,000 fires in 2024 that devastated over 30 million hectares of vegetation—most of it in the Amazon—and triggered a national environmental emergency…

Brazil is pursuing a range of responses”

news.mongabay.com/2025/04/braz

Mongabay Environmental News · Brazil is speeding-up forest fire prevention to avoid dangerous tipping points in the Amazon (commentary)Brazil is facing an alarming surge in forest fires. Last year, the country registered 237,000 fires and over 30.8 million hectares of vegetation were consumed by flames—an area the size of Italy. This represented a 79% increase in areas burned compared to 2023. The Amazon rainforest bore the brunt, accounting for 58% of the total burned area. The threat of more fires during the 2025 fire […]
#Forests#Rainforest#Wildfires
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