Archaeologists have found a lost Mayan city on the Yucatán Peninsula using an old lidar survey from 2013 that was conducted to monitor the carbon reservoirs in Mexico's forests.
There's an art in producing a consistent type of content, and then every so often doing something different that is unexpected but just as good. This week, Blindboy did an outside broadcast of his podcast as a walking tour of Limerick City history, and it is brilliant.
The Irish Government has launched Climate Actions Work, a programme of unding designed to encourage local and grass roots Climate Action and awareness programmes, complete with a map of current in-progress projects.
The Sony Computer Science Laboratories released an interactive 15 minute city map, showing a range of world cities dissected into grids, where each grid is scored based on its distance by foot and by bike to a range of amenities, services and infrastructure.
Desmog have published an eye-opening map of all the organisations, institutions, and individuals that make up the farming lobby in Ireland, that shows that "the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils.".
Google-backed non-profit Global Fishing Watch used AI models & satellite imagery to build a true map of ocean vessels and offshore infrastructure. The results show 30% of global vessels are not publicly tracked, and 75% of industral fishing vessels are not tracked.
Hannah Ritchie published another excellent piece, this time about how much waste will be generated by solar panels and wind turbines, which is miniscule compared to fossil fuel, plastic, and municipal waste.
In 1799, Edmund Fry published the book Pantographia: Containing Accurate Copies of All the Known Alphabets in the World. The digitised version of the book is now available to view on the Public Domain Review and contains some fantastic runes, include many Irish ones (p.164) I haven't come across before.
