South Korea's land area expanded by 10.5 square kilometers in 2024, with significant increases in industrial, residential, and infrastructure areas, while forest and agricultural land decreased.
#YonhapInfomax #LandAreaIncrease #SouthKoreaInfrastructure #UrbanDevelopment #LandUseChanges #CadastralStatistics #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=56297
South Korea's Land Area Increased by 3.6 Times the Size of Yeouido Last Year

South Korea's land area expanded by 10.5 square kilometers in 2024, with significant increases in industrial, residential, and infrastructure areas, while forest and agricultural land decreased.

Yonhap Infomax

Mix logging, high rainfall puddles from giant machinery,
get potentially life-threatening mosquito-borne diseases.
(Murray Valley encephalitis , Ross River viruses and Japanese encephalitis) >>
https://theconversation.com/mozzies-may-be-carrying-japanese-encephalitis-this-summer-heres-what-to-know-if-youre-spending-time-outdoors-246781

Malaria moves in behind the loggers >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/30/environment.climatechange
#NSW #mosquitoes #encephalitis #deforestation #LoggingImpacts #roads #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #FCNSW #harm #pathogens #encephalitis #OneHealth #LandUseChanges

Mozzies may be carrying Japanese encephalitis this summer. Here’s what to know if you’re spending time outdoors

Health authorities in Victoria and NSW are warning of an increased risk of potentially life threatening mosquito-borne disease. What can you do to protect yourself and your family?

The Conversation

The land occupied by #DenmanProspect suburb in #Canberra has a history that makes for a perhaps illustrative timeline showing #LandUseChanges with #Colonisation of #Australia.

And also showing the trashing of the #CanberraMasterplan that had #Canberra as a #BushCapital for a while.

I'll post in a while, universe willing, photos of a tiny fragment of this timeline.

#CarbonBombs #California style: PG&E destroyed millions of #trees within #CarbonSinks in service of a practice that proved ineffective.  #EVM was a massive subsidy based on no data to keep #Sprawl and #realestate in the #highfire zone that #insurance is now leaving being by acknowledging the risk to burden state residents with the cost.

#corruptpoliticians #globalboiling #AcceleratingKeelingCurve #landusechanges

Gift link thanks to @dsacer
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-scraps-tree-trimming-program-once-seen-as-key-to-fire-prevention-97a1ac5e?st=owhftxlzub115bx

From: @andybrwn
https://sfba.social/@andybrwn/110821461177689304

WSJ News Exclusive | PG&E Scraps Tree-Trimming Program Once Seen as Key to Fire Prevention

California utility spent more than $2 billion on effort it says was ineffective; focus now is on power-line settings

WSJ
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#ClimateChange and #LandUseChanges increase likelihood of #FloodEvents. New studies on the 2021 floods in the Eifel region and on future trends of such extreme events. https://www.kit.edu/kit/english/pi_2022_067_climate-change-and-land-use-changes-increase-likelihood-of-flood-events.php
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