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Untold Story of Google Earth

  • «https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lhMlFl_NR-g>>

Demographics

  • «https://www.npr.org/2025/08/03/nx-s1-5476032/chiles-plunging-birth-rate-may-foreshadow-future-in-u-s>>

Global Inequality

  • «https://globalinequality.org/>>

High Stakes Dodgeball

  • «https://on.ft.com/44N5SV2>>

Google AlphaEarth Foundations

  • PR Announcement: «https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaearth-foundations-helps-map-our-planet-in-unprecedented-detail/>>
  • Paper: «https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22291>>

Antarctic Sea Floor Mapping «Issue-63-Antarctica.xx»

  • «https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/scientists-map-antarctic-seafloor-canyons-to-help-predict-climate-change>>

Out of Eden Walk - The Geography of Loneliness

  • «https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/the-geography-of-loneliness/>>

Japan’s Demographic Time-bomb

  • «https://www.ft.com/video/f72270d4-9116-4659-b9c8-6e9021a35a45>>

Atlas of Oblique Maps Quite stunning.

  • The reference with link to PDF: «https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/i1799>>
  • The Atlas (quite a large download)

McAtlas https://open.substack.com/pub/walkingtheworld/p/mcdonalds-around-the-world?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store&utm_campaign=email-read-in-app I’m

Library of Lost Maps https://libraryoflostmaps.com/

Vermeer https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jules-grandin-60309552_le-g%C3%A9ographe-de-vermeer-est-probablement-ugcPost-7348988217628528640-yaBD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAIQb1UBK_IDoxfnC6cp5FyABG26RHlmXyY

LGND https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/lgnd-wants-to-make-chatgpt-for-the-earth/

World stress https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mbforr_most-people-have-never-seen-a-map-like-this-activity-7343590029211959296-F-jn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAIQb1UBK_IDoxfnC6cp5FyABG26RHlmXyY

Africa Tectonics https://www.independent.co.uk/space/earth-pulsing-continent-africa-molten-b2777111.html

Snow mistake https://www.maps.com/snow-mistake-correcting-myths-in-the-mapping-of-cholera/?adumkts=social&utm_source=social&aduc=social&adum=external&adusf=linkedin&sf_id=7015x000000aYlKAAU&aduca=mi_employee_advocacy_hootsuite_amplify_soc_ex&adut=ee8ba5cb-90c1-457b-bf3b-90b0eb01aad9

Tectonic Plate maps

  • «https://brilliantmaps.com/tectonic-plates/>>

Great Story Maps

  • Animals on the Move: «https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/22ae60499fd449608ae591d2768bd816>>
  • Alexander von Humboldt and the US: «https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b1145a02f54043a281407418c836fdb7>>

Personal overshoot day: https://www.footprintcalculator.org/home/en

  • Footprint Data and biological capacity: «https://data.footprintnetwork.org/>#/>

Whale Migration Worldwide A platform to track whale migration.

  • Blue Corridors: «https://bluecorridors.org/explore/species>>
  • About Blue Corridors Platform: «https://bluecorridors.org/about>>

Earth’s Changing Oceans «https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrqd3qqyX0I>>

Largest Seagrass meadow https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sharks-camera-scientists-seagrass-forest-bahamas

“The Planet doesn’t care that we elected a moron”

  • Substack: «https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/meanwhile-back-in-the-real-world?utm_source=substack&publication_id=438146&post_id=164954660e>>

State of Climate Change Soutwest Pacific

  • World Meteorological Organization: «https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-climate-south-west-pacific-2024>>

Visa https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg9750vvwxo.amp

Spilhaus Projection Sea Surface Temperature Interesting visualization in a projection you don’t see too often. Or ever. Maybe because the equator is so important in temperature related visualizations and it is a curve in this one.

  • LinkedIn: «https://www.linkedin.com/posts/guido-cioni-05602551_oceans-cover-about-71-of-earths-surfaceyet-activity-7333799373279019009-T35Q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAIQb1UBK_IDoxfnC6cp5FyABG26RHlmXyY>>

Darkening of the Global Ocean 21% of ocean surface waters have experienced a significan decline in light penetration. That seems concerning. I saw this through a planet activist post and the Voice for Blue article is a bit hyperbolic. I would say the change is significant but the impacts are as yet unknown. For example, the study was mostly accurate in less turbid, deep ocean, water. It was far less accurate in coastal waters. Which is where corals are. Yet, there is an immediate linkage with coral decline. That may be the case but it is not supported by any evidence - yet.

  • Journal Article (open data): «https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70227>>
  • Voice for Blue substack: «https://voicefortheblue.substack.com/p/the-ocean-is-getting-darker-why-isnt?triedRedirect=true>>
  • The comments in this LinkedIn post are interesting: «https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lukedmcmillan_breaking-oceandarkening-climatescience-activity-7334152861787844609-hB5i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAIQb1UBK_IDoxfnC6cp5FyABG26RHlmXyY>>

Key Climate Tipping Points A nice summary.

  • LinkedIn: «https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-change-tipping-points-risk-assessment-raiker-witter-hocre/?trackingId=hYlyrxyURjSEft4e2xR67w%3D%3D>>

Measuring Thermal Discomfort Where to plant trees in urban areas.

  • Open Access Paper: «https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212095525001762>>

### Economic Geography Maddison Project Database Historical Economic Statistics over a very long period. Like GDP for 1,000+ years ![[./_resources/Issue_63.resources/image.png]] https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2020?lang=en

### Rewilding in Academia World’s first MSc in Nature Recovery, Restoration and Rewilding.

  • University of Manchester: «https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/21491/msc-nature-recovery-restoration-and-rewilding/>>
  • Free and Open Online Rewilding Course: «https://rewildingeurope.com/online-rewilding-course/>>

Islands map https://shadedrelief.com/island-se-asia/#download

### Human Diffusion Literally a human diffusion model for Neanderthal’s.

  • Science Daily (popular press article)«https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250610004057.htm>>
  • Journal article: «https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0325693>>
  • Open Science Framework files: «https://osf.io/h5bjk/>>
  • Github repo: «https://github.com/cocoemily/ab-lcp-dispersals>>

### Rewilding News After 500 years the beaver is back in Portugal.

  • From Rewilding Portugal: «https://rewilding-portugal.com/news/more-than-500-years-later-the-beaver-is-back-in-portugal/>>

Daupiné Alps Latest addition to the European Rewilding effort.

  • Rewilding Europe: «https://rewildingeurope.com/news/rewilding-europe-welcomes-the-dauphine-alps-as-its-eleventh-rewilding-landscape/>>
  • European Rewilding Portfolio: «https://rewildingeurope.com/landscapes/>>
  • European Rewilding Network: «https://rewildingeurope.com/european-rewilding-network/>>

1667 Shaded Relief of Zurich Canton By Hans Conrad Gyger. Incredibly early for an overhead terrain map. It is probably Eduard Imhof’s copy that is in the Rumsey collection. He was a professor of cartography in Zurich. So there’s an interesting text from Imhof on Cartographic Relief and a bit about him as well. Image: Issue-63-Zurich.png

  • From the David Rumsey collection (probably it’s Eduard Imhof’s copy): «https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~348731~90116368:Karte-des-Kantons-Zurich%2C-vollende?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&qvq=q:eduard%20imhof;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=30&trs=548>#>
  • Eduard Imhof - Cartographic Relief Presentation: «https://www.scribd.com/document/391258699/Imhof-E-Cartographic-relief-presentation-pdf>>
  • Eduard Imhof: «https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Imhof>>

## Ecuador ** Pre-Incan Water Management** <p></p> Historian discovers pre-Incan water management and storage then revived it for modern day.