#urbangrowth — Public Fediverse posts

Scorpion surge in Brazilian cities is blamed on unplanned growth. #Scorpions #Brazil #UrbanGrowth

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/08/scorpion-stings-rise-brazil-cities-aoe?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

Sydney has seen a rapid decline since hosting the Olympics, while Canberra has grown and expanded. The balance has shifted, and now Canberra is the best place in Australia when it comes to combining livability with vibrancy. #Sydney #Canberra #Liveability #UrbanGrowth #BestPlacesToLive #Australia #OlympicLegacy

https://the-riotact.com/canberra-jokes-a-thing-of-the-past-as-sydney-decline-makes-us-the-nations-premier-city/855679

End Of An Era – Historic Landsat 7 Mission Takes Final Images
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-historic-landsat-7-mission-takes-final-images <-- shared USGS technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #landsat #remotesensing #landsat7 #history #mission #landsat8 #landsat9 #landsatnext #imagery #satellite #landuse #water #hydrology #disasters #ecology #ecosystems #climatechange #deforestration #urbangrowth #wildfires #monitoring #agriculture #waterresources #change #forest #vegetation #snow #ice #glaciers
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R to @euenvironment: What will #Sentinel2C improve? 🚀

It will continue the work of its predecessor, Sentinel-2A, ensuring continuous high-res, frequent imagery of Earth's land surfaces—crucial for tracking #vegetation changes, #urbangrowth, and more. 🌳🏙️

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Urban growth is leading to more intense droughts for most of the world’s cities – and Sydney is a case study for areas at risk

"The growth of cities worldwide is contributing to more intense #drought conditions in many cities, including Sydney, a new Chinese study has found. This is adding to urban heat and water stress. These important findings point to the need to improve how we design and build cities to make them more liveable and resilient."

#urbangrowth

https://theconversation.com/urban-growth-is-leading-to-more-intense-droughts-for-most-of-the-worlds-cities-and-sydney-is-a-case-study-for-areas-at-risk-236315

Beach Erosion Will Make Southern California Coastal Living Five Times More Expensive By 2050, Study Predicts | Shoreline Retreat And Beach Nourishment Are Projected To Increase In Southern California
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https://phys.org/news/2024-05-beach-erosion-southern-california-coastal.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01388-6 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #coastal #morphology #erosion #sandy #beaches #shoreline #retreat #California #model #modeling #climatechange #precipitation #urbangrowth #urban #mitigation #forecast #nourishment #engineering #coastalengineering #photogrammetry #coast #survey #change #rates #economy #economiccost #logistics #coastalhazards #risk #hazard

Mapping The Planet’s Critical Areas For Biodiversity And Nature’s Contributions To People
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43832-9 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #global #biodiversity #nature #humanimpact #climatechange #foodsecurity #habitat #sustainabledevelopment #spatialcongruence #ecosystems #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #people #population #highdevelopment #conservation #landarea #hydrology #GlobalBiodiversityFramework #agriculture #energy #renewableenergy #oilandgas #mining #urban #urbangrowth #conflict #accomodation #NCP

🤝🌆The event was a great opportunity to initiate new collaborations aiming to share methods and data, as well as to tackle both common and differing issues that Germany and India face, when it comes rapid #UrbanGrowth, #densification and #ClimateChangeAdaptation.

Join us on Thursday 01.06 at 4pm BST to the next #SSLSeminars session by @Gazi_Universite's Prof Burcu Ozduru who'll talk about patterns of #IntraUrban #Centralities in Ankara's #UrbanGrowth. m@[email protected]

Register https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdemtqzosGNdCQbEGrTdIfZgnytqPnP3c
Details http://bit.ly/SSLSeminars

But just in case you thought #NZ's abysmal #Freshwater quality was down to #TooManyCows alone, Lake Waikare is a reminder that it's also #UrbanGrowth https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/300850994/rhui-on-duck-shooting-and-fish-gathering-at-whangamarino-wetland

Profile of an #Arizona suburb that thought it could skirt requirements for a #sustainable water supply. Now homeowners are finding out the hard way that #water is essential, as a neighboring community cuts of their water access. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verde-scottsdale.html

#DrinkingWater #urbangrowth #drought #arid #WaterSupply