The Associated Press on MSN4d
Spain floods death toll hits 205 as maps, satellite images reveal Valencia impact and residents blast response
"Entire houses have disappeared," says a local mayor in Spain's flood-battered Valencia region. "We don't know if there were ...
World's first wooden satellite blasts off for space
Named after the Latin word for 'wood', the LignoSat satellite developed by Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry ...
Mongabay on MSN7d
Satellite firm Planet’s ‘biodiversity subscription’ aims to make tech accessible
Marcos Terán has worked in and around the Matos River in Bolivia for years, collecting data and collaborating with local ...
China is building new villages on its remote Himalayan border. Some appear to have crossed the line
CNN has geolocated four officially named villages and a fifth settlement using satellite images and videos in state and ...
ZME Science on MSN7h
Cutting Beef Production by Just 13% Could Absorb Billions of Tons of CO2
It wouldn’t take too much of a decrease, either. Surprisingly, a 13% reduction in global beef production could restore lands ...
Jeff Kerby maps extraordinary life at extremes
Kerby is a trained ecologist, geographer and photographer whose career has largely been centered on a quest to understand nature’s patterns and sharing his discoveries. Phenology, or the seasonal ...
Defense One6d
Who tells satellites where to take pictures? Increasingly, it’ll be robots, Maxar says
Automated scans of low-res imagery will cue high-res passes, while simulations will help manage ever-growing queues for ...
Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly a quarter of buildings in Lebanon’s south
Almost 6,000 structures have been affected in border villages, including at least nine religious sites demolished in ...
Defense One6d
Maxar’s working on a 3D-mapping tool to replace GPS
Maxar’s nascent Pinpoint tool will use a drone’s video feed to infer its surroundings in 3D, then match that to maps built ...
Israel's path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone
Israeli warplanes and ground forces have blasted a trail of destruction through southern Lebanon the past month. The aim, ...
Spain floods latest: 5,000 more soldiers deployed as satellite photos show extent of devastation
Death toll expected to keeping rising as Spain’s worst flood-related disaster in modern history sweeps across region of Valencia ...