Nonilex, to Michigan
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A #GrayWolf killed in a January #coyote hunt in #Michigan's southern Lower Peninsula; #DNR investigating how it got there.

The harvest was potentially the 1st time a gray wolf has been identified in the Lower Peninsula since the species was wiped out driven to [#extinction] from the state in the early 20th century, MI Dept of #NaturalResources said.

#law #Federal #EndangeredSpecies #conservation #AnimalRights #hunting
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/04/03/dnr-gray-wolf-found-killed-southwest-mich/73190430007/

GregCocks, to RadioControl
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The Case For Remote Sensing Of Individual Plants

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1347 <-- shared short article

#GIS #spatial #mapping #UAV #drone #drones #LiDAR #photosynthesis #imagingspectroscopy #trees #plants #vegetation #forest #monitoring #identification #satellite #cubesat #landsurface #landcover #spatialanalysis # interpretation #biology #scale #sensor #technology #fieldwork #fieldplatforms #spatiotemporal #resources #naturalresources #phenology #photogrammetry #plantbiology #model #modeling #inference #remotesensing

aerial images - High-resolution images from the Planet Labs constellation of cube-sats detect flowering individual trees in the Peruvian Amazon (yellow objects in panel A) and Colombian Amazon (pink objects in panel B). Many thousands of flowering individuals are apparent across hundreds of kilometers of Amazonian forest in these flowering events. Scale bar = 500 m.
aerial and oblique remotesensing-created images - Drone remote sensing of individual trees. (A) Ultra-high-density drone lidar resolves individual tree structure in a temperate beech forest in the southern Czech Republic. Colors indicate elevation, and the tallest trees are about 40 m aboveground. Measurement density here is 4323 points per square meter. (B) High-spatial resolution optical remote sensing from a low-altitude drone in the Atlantic lowlands of Costa Rica. We used methods from computer vision to construct three-dimensional scene geometry from two-dimensional images. The image is a natural color composite. (C) Same area as B, but colored by surface elevation, where warmer colors indicate taller objects. A single Goethalsia meiantha crown is outlined in white. The area of this crown is 157.3 m2. At a pixel size of 1 cm, this crown contains 1.573 × 106 pixels, demonstrating the tremendous increase in measurement density at high-spatial resolution. Scale bar in B and C = 30 m.
graphic / schematic - drone performing remote sensing on a tree

GregCocks, to environment
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Nonilex, to Law
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#SCOTUS divided over whether to curb the #power of #federal agencies

A divided Supreme Court debated whether & how to curtail the power of federal agencies Wednesday, w/ liberals urging the court to defer to the judgment of #government #experts & #conservatives saying courts should not automatically favor government #regulators over #private #companies, #industry or individuals in #litigation.

#law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/17/supreme-court-herring-chevron-regulatory-agencies/

Nonilex,
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But ’s decision has the potential to limit the flexibility of agencies to vast swaths of life, including the , markets, & the .
have long targeted the framework set in 1984 in USA v Defense Council because it requires judges to defer to the reasonable interpretation of federal agency ofcls charged w/administering ambiguous federal .

LALegault, to climate
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I posted about this before but this #climate corruption journalist does a much better job succinctly explaining the natural resources at issue in the conflict in the #MiddleEast.

The full piece is on https://www.planetcritical.com/

#ClimateChange #Israel #Gaza
#gas #naturalresources

Part one:

Climate journalist is walking around a park reporting

msquebanh, (edited ) to Israel
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What current #Israel & #Palestine conflict is really about: Control over #NaturalResources -> #OilAndGas $$.

https://studybuff.com/what-are-the-natural-resources-of-palestine

"The only domestic source of energy is the disputed #Gaza Marine gas field, which has not yet been developed."

#geopolitics #MiddleEast #Capitalism #FossilFuels #GenocideForEcocide #Interconnected #GovernmentsLie #FuelForFascists #AllAboutMoney

Windspeaker, to Alberta

The province has increased the capacity of the #Alberta #Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, taking the amount available for loan guarantees for #investment in projects in the #naturalresources industry and other sectors to $3 billion.

The bump signals to companies planning “monumental transactions” that Alberta is “committed” to support such projects long term.

The province wants #Canada to set up a similar program for Trans Mountain equity.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/alberta-increases-loan-guarantees-aioc-wants-similar-fund-feds-indigenous

#economy #pipelines

euractiv_green, to sustainability
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msquebanh, to random
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#NDP #MP Charlie Angus will ask the #NaturalResources committee to #summon the #CEO of #oilsands giant #Suncor when the #HouseOfCommons resumes next week.
Angus said CEO #RichKruger has a lot of explaining to do over his remarks to #investors on a conference call in August.

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2023/09/12/ndp-wants-suncor-ceo-to-tell-mps-why-company-moving-away-from-focus-on-clean-energy-2

*Never forget this CEO wanker worked for #Exxon prior & has a long history of promoting rampant #ecocide & is OK continuing to carry out more #CrimesAgainstHumanity 🤑

#FossilFuelsKill #StopEcocide

itnewsbot, to Engineering

Mining and Refining: Quartz, Both Natural and Synthetic - So far in this series, pretty much every material we’ve covered has had to undergo... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/06/mining-and-refining-quartz-both-natural-and-synthetic/

mattjmclaren, to sustainability

Today is 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆—the date in the year when humanity collectively begins living beyond our ecological means. As such, from today we move into the ecological equivalent of overdraft spending!

From now until January 1st 2024, our global civilisation will be using more natural resources—everything from fish stocks, fibres and medicines provided by plants; as well as the ability of forests to absorb and impound carbon—than the planet is capable of supplying this (or indeed in any) year.

This is not merely ecological "deficit spending", as some (including the Financial Times) have characterised it; but more like an entirely unauthorised overdraft or perhaps even a dangerous payday loan. This is because by consistently overspending our biological budget, humanity is reducing the biodiversity on which our very survival depends!

The overshoot date, calculated by the Global Footprint Network, a think-tank, using data collected by the United Nations, has been coming earlier almost every year since 1971.

More info on Earth Overshoot Day can be found here; https://www.overshootday.org

helenpugh, to climate
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'A special election will be held this August where Ecuadorians will decide on a historic referendum to restrict oil in... the rainforest by answering the question, “Do you agree that the government should keep the oil in ITT... permanently in the ground?”'
https://amazonwatch.org/news/2023/0601-ecuador-makes-history-vote-to-keep-the-oil-in-the-ground-in-yasuni-underway

Amongst other themes, my book Jungle-tastic Tales explores nature resource extraction in the .

fgusmao, to random

" #Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant groups, pastoralists, hunters and gathers, and other types of local communities have collectively held and managed their #traditional lands for hundreds, even thousands of years. Many of these groups steward their land and #naturalresources sustainably(...). Community land also provides a host of regional and global benefits, such as #climatechange mitigation, #wildlife habitat, #water purification, #tourism and more"
https://www.wri.org/equitable-development/indigenous-peoples-local-communities

kegill, to design
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