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Visualizing Patterns of Land Cover Change in Indonesia For decades, Indonesia has been one of the fastest growing countries in the world. The scale of this growth is actually quite easy to analyze and visualize with data from the European Space Agency’s CCI  Global Land Cover product that was recently updated in ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World to extend from 1992-2019.   So how was this map made? Unlike most cooking recipe blogs, I’ll cut right to the chase (instead of 8 paragraphs of inane babble).   Prepping the Layers Living Atlas provides some incredibly useful content – simple ...

Christians in Nepal persecuted by religious and political decree Using a new anti-conversion law that contravenes the secular constitution, politicians and police are harassing Christians Nepal has one of the world's fastest-growing Christian communities. (Photo: United Mission to Nepal) Christians in Nepal, the Himalayan Hindu-majority nation where believers of Christ have a long history of persecution, are facing fresh attempts to defame them and their faith. In early April, Hindu nationalists circulated a forged document on social media that showed Christian groups have outlined a plan to ...

I wish to thank Dr. Katherine Trebeck and Dr. Dirk Philipsen for their response to our lead essay. It is a pleasure to discuss important ideas with scholars who are searching for the truth and human betterment. Trebeck and Philipsen question “the human ability to invent itself out of the basic laws of physics” and call for “A Wellbeing Economy [that] positions the economy in service of human flourishing and true freedom; less precariousness and more dignity; fewer dirty industries and more businesses who put their workers and communities front and center.” I agree that humanity stil...

Right now, in the conservation movement, a lot of people are fixated on a single number: 30. The US and more than 50 other countries have pledged to conserve 30 percent of their land and water by 2030 as a means to help thwart the biodiversity crisis. Biodiversity tends to increase with the area of land or water conserved, yet just 16 percent of global land is in protected areas today (in the US, it’s closer to 12 percent), according to the World Database on Protected Areas. Intact ecosystems also play a major role in mitigating climate change. As conservationists have recognized the impor...

Offshore wind turbines could meet all of South Africa’s energy needs – eight times over: research Subscribe South Africa should tap into its abundant offshore wind energy resources to help address future electricity shortages, say researchers at Stellenbosch University. In a study published in the Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, Gordon Rae and Dr Gareth Erfort from the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University said that wind turbines strategically placed off the KZN and Western Cape coasts could contribute a significant amount of clean energy t...