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BellingenNSW

Koala filmed drinking on a rural road had to be euthanised

"Koalas that come down to the ground to seek out water are typically suffering from bad health issues. The iconic animal was recently spotted by a driver hovering over the ground and using its tongue to lick moisture off the bitumen."
au.news.yahoo.com/grim-truth-b
#koalas #roads #drivers #vehicle #Biodiversity #habitat

Yahoo News · Grim truth behind seemingly innocent sight on rural road: 'Didn't realise'By Brianne Tolj
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BellingenNSW

From water pollution to blue gold

Water "“blighted by mats of algae, mountains of foam, scum, and dead fish floating on the surface. Pollution from water companies and agricultural runoff are driving the contamination, which affects all parts of the country, causing toxic algal blooms, mass die-offs of fish, and risks to human health."

"A country that once let raw sewage and industrial wastewater flow directly into its water. Today, it is 98%, and the country has a reputation for pristine swimming waters, sometimes referred to as its “blue gold” – and it’s all thanks to a complex network of sewage plants."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#water #pollution #micropollutants #ecosystem #health #swimming #Australia #sewage #floods #runoff #ImperviousSurfaces #roads #MassMortalities #SepticTanks #sprawl #biodiversity #rivers #civilisation

The Guardian · From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its riversBy Phoebe Weston
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Manly Blog

Chlamydia detected in Sydney’s only disease-free koala population

"The koalas were tested after they were found in Appin in south-western Sydney in September with injuries suggesting they had both been hit by cars." >>

theguardian.com/australia-news
#Koalas #roads #cars #Sydney #AppinRoad #roadtrauma

The Guardian · Chlamydia detected in Sydney’s only disease-free koala populationBy Lisa Cox
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BellingenNSW

Koala! Go fetch our data!

An underweight koala, with several high-tech monitoring devices attached to its body is lost in a bulldozed habitat. It is making way for cars and a highway. The endangered animal had " a collar with a VHF tracker around its neck, a pin stitched between its shoulder blades and a blue tag on its ear."
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au.news.yahoo.com/koala-wearin
#biodiversity #koalas #wildlife #harassment #mobility #roads #cars #telemetry #ethics #science #monitoring #tracking #conservation #MobilityDesign #LogisticsWarehouse #VegetationClearing #machines

Yahoo News · Koala wearing mysterious devices on busy road sparks concern: 'What's going on?By Michael Dahlstrom
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BellingenNSW

The human carnage on the roads - "accidents" and road violence

"In Australia, a country with a terrible occurrence and societal acceptance of violent road deaths (would we, for example, be so lackadaisical about the death “toll” were we measuring killings, accidental and otherwise, involving knives or dogs or lawnmowers?), we are culturally imbued with notions of our “rights” rather than our “privileges” when it comes to motor vehicle driving. Something to do with our vast expanses and wide-open roads perhaps."
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/
#RoadViolence #cars #SUVs #roads #violence #accident #RoadTrauma #RoadTrafficFatalities #roadkill #sprawl #Australia #MobilityDesign

The Guardian · When Dad couldn’t drive any more, it was devastating – but he was just too oldBy Paul Daley
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Michael T Babcock

One of the biggest things I got was that the idea of engineering roadways around human mistakes seems to have eluded society for a very long time.
"officials were no longer allowed to design roads for idealised drivers who never became distracted or exceeded the speed limit. They had to make roads for real people who made mistakes."
We haven't been doing this. We should have. Touch base with your own governments. We all deserve safer roads.
#safety #driving #roads #cars

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Michael T Babcock

Fantastic article on road safety and putting systems in place to actually reduce the fatalities caused by car society:
bbc.com/future/article/2024051
"The pattern that began to emerge revealed that crash victims were not, as many in the road transport sector, assumed – drunk and irresponsible drivers. For the most part, they were people who made small mistakes within a system that had no margin for error."
#cars #safety #driving #urbanPlanning #roads #government

BBC · More than a million people die on roads every year. Meet the man determined to prevent themBy William Kremer
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Imogen

#Minnesota #Weather #Roads

Currently all roads in the Twin Cities metro area and in southern counties are severely impaired.

Around 9:30 a.m., Gov. Tim Walz announced he had authorized the Minnesota National Guard to help provide support for emergency storm operations. According to his office, members of the Freeborn County Sheriff’s Office have asked for help – including equipment and personnel – to help rescue stranded motorists.

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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

A Methodology For The Multitemporal Analysis Of Land Cover Changes And Urban Expansion Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imagery - A Case Study Of The Aburrá Valley In Colombia
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doi.org/10.3390/rs17030554 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #SyntheticApertureRadar #SAR #remotesensing #multitemporalanalysis #landcover #landcoverchange #clustering #kurtosis #fuzzylogic #kernelbasedmethod #machinelearning #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #geostatistics #model #modeling #AburráValley #Columbia #urban #urbanexpansion #population #growth #topography #monitoring #satellite #sentinel #valley #landuse #distribution #infrastructure #building #roads #naturalresources #environmental #conservation #monitoring #multitemporal

photo - looking down into Medellin, Aburrá Valley, Columbia from a surrounding high ground
annotated maps with imagery - Areas of analysis of the results by the SMA1 methodological route and kurtosis. (A). Central Park in Bello (B). Parques del Río Medellín (C). Arkadia Shopping center; (D). Peldar Plant (E). La García water supply reservoir (F). Conasfaltos dam (G). La Ayurá stream basin in Envigado (H). Central Park in Bello (I). Avenida Regional Norte (J). Vía Distribuidora Sur.
schematic / work flow - proposed methodology for analysis of zonal land cover changes
annonated maps - The Aburrá Valley (white line) between the valleys of the Magdalena and Cauca rivers. Data were acquired from ALOS PALSAR Terrain Corrected and data from IGAC.
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Ali Clarke :flag_tino:

Interesting study about the road lobby in NZ. If only public transport and health advocates had similar influence with our government.

“They supported policies that promoted private vehicles and investment in their supporting infrastructure whilst opposing the reallocation of transport funding from roads to low-carbon transport modes and tighter regulation of vehicle emissions.”

#NZPol #roads #TransportPolicy

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

www.sciencedirect.comThe road lobby and unhealthy transport policy discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand: A framing analysisTransport is an important determinant of population health. Decarbonisation of the transport system is also a critical part of climate policy with add…
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BellingenNSW

Highway expansions and road widening
How America (Australia) Can Break Its Highway Addiction

"After a century of rampant roadbuilding, the U.S. highway network is ubiquitous, dominating the American landscape in bucolic rural settings as well as dense urban ones. Rather than being a tool for mobility, it has become a monument to an auto-centric lifestyle that fouls the air and depletes the public coffers. Neither the country nor the planet can afford to keep expanding it."

"At the federal level, even asking questions about the collective climate impact of highway building appears verboten."
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slate.com/business/2024/08/con
#Sprawl #roads #highways #expansion #cars #automobility #industry #asphalt #Motordom #MobilityDesign #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #NSW #CoffsHarbour #bellingen #GlenifferRoad

The 14-kilometre Coffs Harbour bypass project for $2.2 billion. That's a lot of cycle and footpaths. What active mobility?
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