#climateimpact — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climateimpact, aggregated by home.social.
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Here’s what we know about the climate cost of white trails aircraft leave in the sky
#Environment #ClimateChange #Aviation #Contrails #Pollution #GlobalWarming #Sustainability #AirTravel #ClimateImpact #Pollution #Science #Weather #Sky #GreenFuture
https://the-14.com/heres-what-we-know-about-the-climate-cost-of-white-trails-aircraft-leave-in-the-sky/ -
We eat a lot of wheat. So how can we grow more in a changing climate?
#Wheat #Agriculture #Farming #ClimateChange #Farmers #FoodSecurity #Sustainability #GlobalFood #CropScience #ClimateImpact #Tech #Environment #FoodCrisis #Weather #Innovation #Emissions
https://the-14.com/we-eat-a-lot-of-wheat-so-how-can-we-grow-more-in-a-changing-climate/ -
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
#Science #AI #SpaceX #Starlink #NightSky #Astronomy #Environment #SpaceDebris #LightPollution #ClimateImpact #Satellite #SpaceIndustry #EarthOrbit #Astronomers #Pollution
https://the-14.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth/ -
🌿 NDVI change in Calgary’s Weaselhead Flats (2024 → 2025)
This map shows how vegetation in one of Calgary’s most diverse natural areas responded to the city’s unusually wet summer of 2025.
Greener shades mark zones where NDVI increased most strongly compared to 2024 — the same floodplain and forest patches that locals know for dense canopy recovery.Even modest year-to-year shifts in temperature and rainfall leave clear spatial traces in NDVI — a reminder of how sensitive urban ecosystems are to climate variability, and how well open-data satellite products can capture it.
🛰 Data and processing: Sentinel-2 + R + QGIS
#NDVI #RemoteSensing #Calgary #UrbanEcology #ClimateImpact #EnvironmentalMonitoring #GIS #QGIS #RStats #DataVisualization #GeospatialAnalysis #Sentinel2 #CopernicusSentinel2 #CopernicusProgram #Copernicus #GreennessOfCalgary #Alberta #Canada
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🌿 Calgary’s vegetation — satellite comparison (2024 → 2025)
Median NDVI maps from mid-May to mid-September show a clear difference between the two seasons.
In 2025, NDVI values are noticeably higher — vegetation stayed greener and denser for longer.
The wetter summer had a strong effect on canopy productivity across most Calgary communities, especially in parkland and tree-covered zones.🛰️ Based on Sentinel-2 imagery and R + QGIS processing.
#RemoteSensing #NDVI #UrbanEcology #Calgary #GeospatialAnalysis #GIS #Sentinel2 #EnvironmentalData #DataVisualization #OpenScience #EarthObservation #ClimateImpact #RStats #QGIS
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🌿 Where Calgary Got Greener — and Where It Didn’t?
A quick look at how Calgary’s residential communities changed in greenness (NDVI) between 2024 and 2025.
🟢 Some neighbourhoods show a clear recovery of vegetation — probably thanks to a wetter, milder summer, better soil moisture, or local greening efforts.
🔴 Others stayed stagnant or even lost NDVI — maybe new construction, dry soils, or sparse vegetation played a role.The bar chart shows Top-5 and Bottom-5 communities by NDVI change. It’s fascinating how uneven the “greening pulse” can be within one city.
📊 Based on Sentinel-2 data, mid-May – mid-September, processed in R.
#Calgary #NDVI #RemoteSensing #UrbanEcology #EnvironmentalData #GIS #Sentinel2 #ClimateImpact #GeospatialAnalysis #DataScience #RStats #OpenData #GreennessOfCalgary #Alberta #Canada
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The process of crafting narratives about environmental destruction
"We are currently living with bushfires, floods, pandemics and the extreme challenges of the climate crisis; the future is our present and the ways we think about it will dictate the ways we act and cope." >
https://theconversation.com/cli-fi-might-not-save-the-world-but-writing-it-could-help-with-your-eco-anxiety-218801"Eco-anxiety
is the distress caused by climate change where people are becoming anxious about their future." >
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278221000444
#writing #literature #narratives #climate #FossilFuels #ClimateImpact #anxiety #EcoAnxiety #WesternCountries #LivedExperiences #EnvironmentalDestruction #ClimateCrisis -
Another important point to make regarding this #NYTimes article (https://nyti.ms/3V9Eqsm) is that these "green", "better #climateimpact" areas of the maps (I can speak specifically to #NYC), are the areas that are experiencing the worst #healtheffects of #climatechange.
NYC has high risks due to #heat and #adverseweather that will cause morbidity & mortality in our populations. There is less #greenspace which impacts #mentalhealth.
