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#idw Growing Land Use Pressure Puts Mount Kilimanjaro’s Biodiversity at Risk
Rapid population growth is driving sweeping land use changes that have become the chief cause of species decline on Mount #Kilimanjaro. These are the findings of an international research team led by the University of Bayreuth,…

Growing Land Use Pressure Puts Mount Kilimanjaro’s Biodiversity at Risk

According to the movies, Aliens only land and attack in the USA.
So if they ever do it, we could use that right now. Make them annoy something else for a few years.

Versucht, eine Recherche im Landnutzungsmodul von #Copernicus zu machen. Dazu die eingebaute Hilfe-KI benutzt und insgesamt 3 Fragen gestellt. Nicht nur, dass mich die Antworten leider nicht weiter gebracht haben und ganz andere Schwerpunkte hatten, als meine Fragen. Der Hammer ist aber die Zahl der Abkürzungen. Bei 3 Fragen habe ich ca 200-300 Abkürzungen als Antwort erhalten. Kein Wunder, …

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/biodiversity-loss-due-to-land-use-change-could-be-highly-underestimated-study/

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study
A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has found that clearing forests to create new pastures is causing as much as 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously thought. Until now, research into the impact on biodiversity of land use change has generally involved […]

"Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study"
#Animals #Biodiversity

Biodiversity loss due to land use change could be highly underestimated: Study
A survey of Colombian birdlife, which evolved over more than a decade into the world’s largest-ever ornithological study, has found that clearing forests to create new pastures is causing as much as 60% more damage to biodiversity than previously thought. Until now, research into the impact on biodiversity of land use change has generally involved […]

🌞 Dual use of land for solar energy production and cultivation found feasible in Finland
... few people realize what a win agrivoltaics are for farmers and the environment!
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-dual-solar-energy-production-cultivation.ht…

Dual use of land for solar energy production and cultivation found feasible in Finland
Open farmlands are ideal locations for installing solar panels, but the most common method, which involves covering a large area with south-facing panels, prevents the field from being used for simultaneous farming. The panels can also be installed vertically, allowing crops to be grown in the same field. However, this solution is still rare in Finland.

"Aspiring American authoritarians will only win if they are allowed to do so. None of this has to happen. Both of these terrible possibilities, land war and self-terrorism, are signs of weakness rather than strength. They can be prevented, but only if we name them, and use their horror as the first step to describe something much better."
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Land War or Self-Terrorism?
Trump's Likely Next Step

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

Looks like blockchains have finally found a serious use case, just maybe not the one predicted/hoped for...
This article is about #Glassworm, the latest major exploit in JavaScript-land, targetting VSCode and using #Solana as command infrastructure and Google Calendar events as backup. It'…

GlassWorm: First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX Marketplace | Koi Blog

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/10/27/manchesters-local-plan-responding-to-the-consultation/
Our draft response notes some glaring prob…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone …

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
Local Plans are what guide the pattern of a land use and and building across a council area.  In the case of Greater Manchester (excluding Stockport), the Joint Strategic Plan, Places for Everyone sets the scene, as does the government's National Planning Policy Framework.  That means that there are some very real constraints on what can be put into a so-called Local Plan (not very local - in the case of…

Manchester’s Local Plan – responding to the consultation
UPDATE!  11 Nov.  We have now submitted a revised version.  It adds some answers to questions we didn’t address in the previously published draft, and has some additions to some of the other …

Southeast Asia's greenhouse gas emissions demand urgent regional action #Asia

Southeast Asia's greenhouse gas emissions demand urgent regional action
A new regional assessment shows that Southeast Asia is a major net source of greenhouse gases, with land-use change and rising fossil fuel use overwhelming natural carbon sinks, reservoirs that store carbon-containing chemical compounds for a long period.

The Bills might be in trouble, plus drama in Laker-land https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6824633/2025/11/21/bills-texans-josh-allen-the-pulse/

Okay, my obscure background as an erstwhile DC land use lawyer is finally relevant.
There are several agencies that oversee any projects at the White House, including the Commission of Fine Arts, the Commission for the Preservation of the White House, the National Park Service, and the National Capital Planning Commission.
Guess who apparently hasn't filed for approval from any of them?
-- Jamie Baker Roskie
Considering that Trump has one of his cronies running N…

"Permitting Parking in Driveways" is at Monday's SFBOS land use committee.
I plan to comment against this. It seems to allow driveways to be unlimited width and to remain even after garages are converted to ADUs. This is nakedly an inducement to more driving at the expense of green space, stormwater drainage, active transportation, and public transit.

And I am convinced that Darth #Putin has explosive material in his hands that he can use to blackmail Darth #Trump, material that would not only get him impeached, but also land him in jail (without an attached golf course) for the rest of his life.

So, it looks like the US Israel are proposing to construct what Apartheid South Africa called "homelands", but which are actually very large concentration camps...
They euphemistically call it "Green Zone".
Which, in addition to being a concentration camp is one that is intended to be a no-mans land between to protect Israel.
Moreover, the remaining "Red Zone" is the area that the trumps jarad-k Saudis Emirates want to bulldoze and use to build…

Living Off the LLM: How LLMs Will Change Adversary Tactics
Sean Oesch, Jack Hutchins, Luke Koch, Kevin Kurian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11398 https://arxi…

Living Off the LLM: How LLMs Will Change Adversary Tactics
In living off the land attacks, malicious actors use legitimate tools and processes already present on a system to avoid detection. In this paper, we explore how the on-device LLMs of the future will become a security concern as threat actors integrate LLMs into their living off the land attack pipeline and ways the security community may mitigate this threat.

Multi-Scale Land Use Impacts on Fossil Fuel-Related CO$_2$ Emissions in the United States
Jason Hawkins, Mehrnoosh Zare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08611 https://

Multi-Scale Land Use Impacts on Fossil Fuel-Related CO$_2$ Emissions in the United States
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions exhibit spatial variation owing to differences in development patterns, local climate, economic composition, energy sources, and other factors. Many of these factors - and therefore their contribution to GHG production - are influenceable through spatial planning and economic policy. Recent advances in environmental data reporting and climate flux measurement have produced high fidelity GHG emissions estimates at detailed spatial and temporal resolut…

#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 6️⃣: Dimensions
I decided to use time as my third dimension and created a simplified animated map showing the Earth’s terminator (the line dividing day and night) around the #Philippines 🇵🇭 at 6 p.m. throughout the year.
Since the Philippines is very near …

"Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end"
#Amazon #Trees #Environment

Amazon could lose over a third of forest cover by century's end
A new LMU study estimates that land use changes in conjunction with climate change could lead to the loss of up to 38% of the Amazon rainforest by the end of the 21st century.

GBA-UBF : A Large-Scale and Fine-Grained Building Function Classification Dataset in the Greater Bay Area
Chunsong Chen, Yichen Hou, Huan Chen, Junlin Li, Rong Fu, Qiushen Lai, Yiping Chen, Ting Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08921

GBA-UBF : A Large-Scale and Fine-Grained Building Function Classification Dataset in the Greater Bay Area
Rapid urbanization in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) has created urgent demand for high-resolution, building-level functional data to support sustainable spatial planning. Existing land use datasets suffer from coarse granularity and difficulty in capturing intra-block heterogeneity. To this end, we present the Greater Bay Area Urban Building Function Dataset (GBA-UBF), a large-scale, fine-grained dataset that assigns one of five functional categories to nearly four millio…

Jets need Heisman favorite Fernando Mendoza to be answer to their QB woes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6885343/2025/12/13/fernando-mendoza-jets-heisman-trophy-2026-nfl-draft/

Good Morning #Canada
I'm relaxing in front of a fireplace with some freshly brewed coffee and watching the Weather Network map animation loop endlessly showing the forecasted snow that will hit us in the next 24 hours. It's hypnotic and distracts you from thinking about the 25-30cm expected accumulation. If you love snow, Canada is the place to be. In fact, almost two-thirds (65%) of Canada's land mass has annual snow cover for more than six months of the year. I read that on the internet, so it's true. I'll be one of the 24% of Canadians who own a #SnowBlower throwing the white stuff everywhere, including back into my face. About half of Canadian households on the east coast own a Snow Blower versus 7% in British Columbia. Apparently, 51% of residents in Barrie use snow clearing machines, which is a statistic I should have paid attention to when we decided to move into this area.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Snowmageddon
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/2626-blowing-snow

Canadians.
Is it time for Canada to ramp up its own defense industry?
We may not be capable of building the really large stuff. But I am thinking a focus on the essentials, mainly defensive or dual use.
Drones. (Land, sea and air)
Air Defense systems.
Armoured Personnel Carriers (we already do)
Ammunition
Artillery.
Small Arms.
We already produce some of this. We could produce more. Do we produce Air Defense systems currently?
Unfortunately the world is in need of more, not less, arms.
#ukraine #russiaukrainewar #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115752916537770053

"Italy clears 710 MW of solar in Puglia, challenges regional PV rules"
#Italy #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Italy clears 710 MW of solar in Puglia, challenges regional PV rules
The italian government says it is fast-tracking utility-scale solar, approving about 710 MW of mainly agrivoltaic projects in Puglia while moving to curb regional limits on where PV plants can be built, sharpening tensions over land use and energy policy.