#costbenefit — Public Fediverse posts
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Beavers Were Brought To The [Utah] Desert To Save A Dying River. Six Years Later, Here Are The Results.
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https://www.upworthy.com/beavers-refresh-utah-desert-ex1 <-- shared technical media article
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https://youtu.be/9-L___3vV9s?si=7H4JJ7sq_t76jw2L <-- shared media video
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https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2025/01/23/voices-federal-water-investments/ <-- shared local media article on the revitalization
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210713-the-beavers-returning-to-the-desert <-- shared international media article on the translocation
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H/T @upworthy
#water #hydrology #desert #Utah #PriceRiver #SanRafaelRiver #restoration #ecosystem #river #waterresources #arid #wildlife #agricultrure #tourism #economics #ROI #costbenefit #humaninpacts #climatechange #overfarming #pollution #Colorado #ColoradoRiverBasin #drought #extremeweather #fluvial #pluvial #wildfire #risk #hazard #fisheries #beaver #translocation #landform #geomorphology #dam #dams #beaverdam #ponds #wetlands #natural #waterquality #reintroduction #keystonespecies #trophiccascade #recreation #fisheries #riparian #habitat #diversity #flow #engineering #fedscience -
USGS and Australia To Continue Partnership in Landsat Next Satellite Mission
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/usgs-and-australia-continue-partnership-landsat-next-satellite-mission <-- shared press release
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gregcocks_gis-spatial-mapping-activity-7175533055325962240-H4Kt <-- link to post with resources about Landsat Next
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring #satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #planning #global #imagery #visualisation #spectral #usecase #appliedscience #economicimpact #economicvalue #value #costbenefit #multispectral #synoptic #natural #humanimpact #australia #cooperation #agreement
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Geoscience Australia -
Landsat Next – Satellites Offers Improved Data To Earth
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https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20243005 <-- link to USGS fact sheet 2024-3005
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https://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/satellites/landsat-next/ <-- NASA page
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https://www.usgs.gov/landsat-missions/landsat-next <-- USGS page
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https://youtu.be/339KeL29tig?si=kr9asLJS5MeHZg5Z <-- NASA Goddard overview video
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“With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years. This new plan for Landsat Next, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, is designed to provide more frequent, and finer resolution, data of the changing surface of Earth…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #monitoring #satellite #Landsat #LandsatNext #planning #global #imagery #visualisation #spectral #usecase #appliedscience #economicimpact #economicvalue #value #costbenefit #multispectral #synoptic #natural #humanimpact
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The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeathsBlair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: https://mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramonet
State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.
(to be continued)
#Post911Wars #WarOnTerror #unjustWars #warCriminals #Blair #Bush #Sarkozy #entitlement #presumption #fragility #insecurity #stats #mortality #wars #diseases #starvation #costing #internationalLaw #costBenefit #IHL #casualties #collateralDamage #warCrimes #terrorism #counterTerrorism #war #warfare #civilians #ethics #grievability #StateViolence #violence #anthropology #epidemics #pollution #statistics #mortality #demography #diseases #injuries #conflicts #USWars #deaths #politics