Cattle & Palm Oil = Deforestation

Great article from NASA: Sizing Up How Agriculture Connects to Deforestation. In-general, deforestation in South America is driven by cattle pastures whereas deforestation in Southeast Asia is driven by palm oil production.

Urban Sprawl

Nice and simple web mapping by The Washington Post (a simple comparison between 2001 and 2019): Where America’s developed areas are growing: ‘Way off into the horizon’

Map Posters

Seen on Maps Mania: This app/tool allows you to create your own colorful map as a basic image file - great for playing around with 'mapping' without the need for a cumbersome GIS. Here the focus can be on exploring your own space & place in a more artistic manner.

This may be a great tool to use in a Physical Geography Lab as an entry to the idea that we can indeed quantify spatial relationships - but - we first need to have a connection to the space that we are trying to understand.

• Maposaic

2021 Fall Foliage Map

 Always useful: https://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/

Introduction to Modern Statistics

 This may be a useful & free book / textbook: Introduction to Modern Statistics

Flawed Data

Let's just make sh$% up with AI:

https://xkcd.com/2494/

Ice Tools

Here are a bunch of resources for glacier modeling:

• https://cryo-tools.org/
• https://www.grss-ieee.org/publications/remote-sensing-code-library/
• https://vhub.org/groups/ghub
• https://github.com/awesome-cryosphere/cryosphere-links