#demographics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #demographics, aggregated by home.social.
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Sumner’s theory of declining fertility as being driven primarily by increasingly good entertainment and leisure options makes sense. There are certainly other factors, but this focuses on broadening out the facile, “it’s the phones,” theory.
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Polish conservatives split ahead of 2027 election – POLITICO
This weakness in the polls is likely to be exacerbated by the split, as conservative and nationalist voters…
#Poland #Polska #PL #Europe #Europa #EU #DonaldTusk #2025PolishPresidency #Demographics #Education #Elections #JarosławKaczyński #KarolNawrocki #LGBTQ #MateuszMorawiecki #Media #Parliament #Platforms #PolishPolitics #Rights #RuleofLaw
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India is now the world’s most populous country, but this episode of #KERAThink says falling birth rates will soon slow growth and may lead to population contraction within a couple of decades. It argues this could still limit economic progress and discusses migration as a way to offset workforce decline. #india #population #demography #demographics #aging #kerala #tamilNadu #TomSasse 🎧️ https://think.kera.org/2026/06/23/indias-population-boom-goes-bust/
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Hanging Glaciers In Himalaya Reveal Rising Avalanche Risk
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-026-00072-2 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-026-00205-8 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #risk #hazard #monitoring #engineeringgeology #naturalhazard #Himalaya #Himalayas #Alaknanda #basin #Garhwal #India #ice #cryosphere #massmovement #avalanche #glacier #hangingglacier #cryosphere #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #sentinel2 #DEM #elevation #model #modeling #GlabTop2 #unstable #hanging #BadrinathMana #impact #infrastructure #damage #HEP #urbanisation #development #population #publicsafety #demographics #glacialretreat #melting #Chamoli #disaster #earlywarningsystems #Himalayan #glaciers #instability #warming #climatechange #riskassessment #riskclassification #framework #avaflow #runout #downstream #downslope #water #hydrology #planning #policy #mitigation #geomorphology #geomorphometry -
Influence Of Modeling Assumptions On Pedestrian Evacuation Success For Non-Eruptive Lahar Hazards At Mount Rainier, Washington
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106132 <-- shared paper
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https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/697ba3e5b66b0197c3043d2f <-- shared, related open data source
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[I still remember working on and being fascinated by lahars being an engineering geologist in Washington State (and from my time studying in New Zealand), although (of course) not to this level of detail/focus]
#volcano #lahar #evacuation #exposure #model #modeling #engineeringeology #risk #hazard #naturalhazard #MountRainer #Washington #USA #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #emergencymanagement #GIS #spatial #mapping #publicsafety #hazardzone #vulcanism #downstream #debrisflow #massmovement #monitoring #detection #geostatistics #demographics #atrisk #fedscience #publicgood #fedservice #opendata
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Vertical Land Motion And Human Exposure Across India's Coastal Regions
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL120539 <-- shared paper 🔗
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https://www.indiaspend.com/climate-change/indias-coastal-cities-face-heavy-flooding-risk-due-to-sea-level-rise-970906 <-- shared media article 🔗
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#SeaLevelRise #Subsidence #India #InSAR #radar #Postdoc #GIS #spatial #mapping #inSAR #LandSubsidence #remotesensing #coast #coastal #coastline #India #earthobservation #subsidence #rise #urban #city #SLR #ClimateChange #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #marine #ocean #water #hydrology #risk #hazard #humanimpacts #flood #flooding #model #modeling #floodrisk #infrastructure #damage #costs #economics #verticallandmotion #VLM #ESA #Sentinel #Ahmedabad #Chennai #Amaravathi #Kochi #Kakinada #Kolkata #deltas #estuary #demographics #population #coastalsubsidence #landuse #planning #mitigation #farmland #agriculture #foodsecurity #groundwater #pumping #extraction -
After decades of the one-child policy, the decline in China's fertility rate was inevitable, like a boulder rolling down a hill. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/28/world/reversing-china-demographic-decline/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #children #births #demographics #china #taiwan #us #sweden #finland
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Some parts of Europe have a growing population, while others are shrinking.
The regional divide is stark: most countries with negative population change are located in the eastern and southern parts of Europe, while countries in the west and north saw population growth.
#Europe #Population #Demographics #Fertility #Migration #FertilityRates #Emigration #Immigration #Deaths #Births
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The “Giant Chair Squad” Post
Preamble Individuals in society should be warned about the “Giant Chair Squad” post because of potential tensions that could result from viewing. While tensions resulting from opening the post up to public view may not be perfectly guaranteed, novaTopFlex worries about specific localities having access to the post. However, numerous other locales would not actually loathe the post in any way. The most significant places of interest for viewers of the “Giant Chair Squad” post are as […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/the-giant-chair-squad-post/
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The “Giant Chair Squad” Post
Preamble Individuals in society should be warned about the “Giant Chair Squad” post because of potential tensions that could result from viewing. While tensions resulting from opening the post up to public view may not be perfectly guaranteed, novaTopFlex worries about specific localities having access to the post. However, numerous other locales would not actually loathe the post in any way. The most significant places of interest for viewers of the “Giant Chair Squad” post are as […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/the-giant-chair-squad-post/
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The “Giant Chair Squad” Post
Preamble Individuals in society should be warned about the “Giant Chair Squad” post because of potential tensions that could result from viewing. While tensions resulting from opening the post up to public view may not be perfectly guaranteed, novaTopFlex worries about specific localities having access to the post. However, numerous other locales would not actually loathe the post in any way. The most significant places of interest for viewers of the “Giant Chair Squad” post are as […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/the-giant-chair-squad-post/
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The “Giant Chair Squad” Post
Preamble Individuals in society should be warned about the “Giant Chair Squad” post because of potential tensions that could result from viewing. While tensions resulting from opening the post up to public view may not be perfectly guaranteed, novaTopFlex worries about specific localities having access to the post. However, numerous other locales would not actually loathe the post in any way. The most significant places of interest for viewers of the “Giant Chair Squad” post are as […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/the-giant-chair-squad-post/
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Falling birthrates and what to do about them.
Scientific consensus holds that global birthrates are plummeting but disagree on whether they can stabilise.
In a series of detailed graphics, NZZ visualises the results of two major studies on birthrate trends around the world.
#Birthrate #Demographics #Fertility #Births #Migration #Science
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New National Heat Index [Maps & Data] Uses USGS [EROS] Data
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/news/new-national-heat-index-uses-usgs-data <-- link to technical article
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https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/Applications/heatTracker/ <-- link to CDC Heat & Health Tracker, by ZIP code
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[new national heat index product for the US, relying on USGS EROS impervious cover layer from the National Land Cover Database (NLCD)]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #NLCD #HeatAndHealthIndex #model #USA #index #publichealth #heat #heat #heatstress #heatexhaustion #heatstroke #climatechange #extremeweather #spatialanalysis #urban #urbanareas #heatislands #corrleation #heatindex #heatcycles #cities #concrete #buildings #vegetation #environment #impervious #impervioussurface #demographics #vulnerable #remotesensing #landsat #ZIPCode #builtenvironments #manmade #development
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Apparently we should do #introductions with lots of #hashtags so here I go. I love emojis 👍😁 I am a #conservation #conservationecologist specialising in #threatenedspecies #threatenedecologicalcommunities
with a recent focus again on 🐨🐨🐨🐨 #koalas #koalarescue #koalaresearch #koalaeducation #koalaadvocacy 🙏🐨💖🤗 I live with an amazing #population of 🐨🐨🐨 #BallinasKoalas who you will get to meet, along with #RichmondValleyKoalas & #SouthEastLismoreKoalas
This all means I love to study and understand all the #interactions within and between species 🐨🦘🦉🦅🐍🐸🪲🦇🐀🐢🐬🐋🐳🦭🐟🦀🐞🐝🐜🐛🦋🐌🦗🕷🌺🌸🌻🌼🌳🌲🌾🌿 and with their #environment 🌏☀️🌡💧🔥🌧🌩 my favourite topics are #populationecology from colonies/cells to #evolution #coevolution #evolution #genetics #fireecology #diseasemanagement #threatmanagement #reproductiveecology #demographics #climatechange #climateaction #adaptation #plasticity all the things that determine whether a species will persist or become #extinct
I support #FirstNations People and 💖 working on Country with #TraditionalOwners #sharingknowledge 🖤❤💛
I have two Jug #dogs Eli and Miss Angie - Jack Russell x Pug 🥰💕 At the moment we are #floodrefugees living in a camper-trailer in Northern NSW.
Look forward to exploring and sharing ideas and thoughts 🥰 meeting new people & catching up with those who left Twitter 😁