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Just before Christmas, the loggers were out in our local woods. Amongst many other trees, they took out quite a number of redwoods. You can clearly see, here, why they're called redwoods. Sadly, the woods now look a complete mess, but luckily, these redwoods behave like coppice and will regrow from their stumps.
Just before Christmas, the loggers were out in our local woods. Amongst many other trees, they took out quite a number of redwoods. You can clearly see, here, why they're called redwoods. Sadly, the woods now look a complete mess, but luckily, these redwoods behave like coppice and will regrow from their stumps.
Across the lane from us there used to be about 40 acres of dense woodland, now there's almost nothing but lumber...
[See how it looked just a few weeks ago in my reply to this post.]
#Photography #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #Woodland #Environment
"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.
More good news.
"Our whole organisation was basically premised on the idea that there were people who were willing to let a bunch of young idiots on to their land indiscriminately, to make fairly massive decisions that would affect land value. We didn’t have any evidence that those people existed at the start. We just kind of assumed, or prayed, that they did.”
"The government subsidies are simply huge: a nuclear tax is being levied on hard pressed consumers. What is the government thinking of? The fossil fuel industry, which has thrown its weight behind nuclear power, is of course delighted; all these decades of new construction without any electricity to show for it gives at least another decade or two of unabated burning gas"
Paul Brown on his life as an environment writer.
In defence of the status quo, we are made to belief that asking for richer public space, safety for our children or a higher quality of live is 'Radical Activism'. 🌳🚲
You are not a radical. They are! 🚩
#ClimateChange #deforestation #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #wildlife #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #pollution #news #earth #amazon
More good news.
"Our whole organisation was basically premised on the idea that there were people who were willing to let a bunch of young idiots on to their land indiscriminately, to make fairly massive decisions that would affect land value. We didn’t have any evidence that those people existed at the start. We just kind of assumed, or prayed, that they did.”
Wegwerfprodukt: Bundesregierung kündigt Verbot von Einweg-E-Zigaretten an
Das Umweltministerium hat im Rahmen der Bundesratsentscheidung über das Elektroschrottgesetz angekündigt, Einweg-E-Zigaretten gesetzlich untersagen zu wollen.
I fully agree with this as it reduces e-waste and hopefully encourages reuse of reusable vapes. We can't just keep producing more and more of something without giving thought to full lifecycle from sourcing of raw materials to end of life and recycling, recovery of materials.
#environment
#vapes
#e-waste
Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history
Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history
"One study suggests the #Amazon provides around $40,000 of value per square kilometre of standing forest each year, giving it a fair asset value of around $3trn, about 50% more than the retailer that shares its name." "carbon price of $25 per tonne would squeeze out cattle ranchers, since landowners could make more money by allowing reforesting." "the EU’s emissions-trading system charges €80 ($93)"
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/23/the-obvious-economics-of-preserving-the-amazon
https://archive.is/QxNYH
"One study suggests the #Amazon provides around $40,000 of value per square kilometre of standing forest each year, giving it a fair asset value of around $3trn, about 50% more than the retailer that shares its name." "carbon price of $25 per tonne would squeeze out cattle ranchers, since landowners could make more money by allowing reforesting." "the EU’s emissions-trading system charges €80 ($93)"
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/23/the-obvious-economics-of-preserving-the-amazon
https://archive.is/QxNYH
meanwhile, in the #UK: "LONDON — The British government is divided over whether to stump up the cash for a flagship environmental pledge meant to protect tropical forests, jeopardizing a potential announcement by Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Brazil."
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-treasury-cop30-brazil-tropical-forest-pledge/
#environment #Amazon #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ukpol #politics
"One study suggests the #Amazon provides around $40,000 of value per square kilometre of standing forest each year, giving it a fair asset value of around $3trn, about 50% more than the retailer that shares its name." "carbon price of $25 per tonne would squeeze out cattle ranchers, since landowners could make more money by allowing reforesting." "the EU’s emissions-trading system charges €80 ($93)"
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/10/23/the-obvious-economics-of-preserving-the-amazon
https://archive.is/QxNYH
