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🌐 Air pollution’s hidden link to diabetes
PLUS: Using generative AI for urban planning, and sensor-agnostic cloud detection
🌐 A new tool for searching OpenStreetMap with text
PLUS: How the weather is affecting marriages, falling global ocean productivity, and more.
Mapping the limits of agricultural adaptation
PLUS: How AI is speeding up map digitisation, and new data processing methods from NASA
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🌐 Google DeepMind's new geospatial model explained intuitively
PLUS: New geospatial platforms from the UN, measuring the impact of pollution from cooking, and more.

July 2025

🌐 What geospatial data and Gaudí can tell us about our taste in art
PLUS: NASA's new approach to detecting methane, detecting oil spills using AI, and more.
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🌐 Why archaeology might fix climate science
PLUS: resetting expectations for global reforestation, issues with satellite change detection models, and more.
🌐 Nightlights aren’t capturing the world’s darkest crises
PLUS: predicting earthquake responses using LLMs, better quality road extraction using AI, and more.
🌐 Researchers tested 10 foundation models on SDG tracking. They flopped.
PLUS: Microsoft's climate model, mapping pollution from Flickr, and more.
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🌐 Early stage crop-mapping just got a lot better
PLUS: zero-shot map labelling, building Youtube maps using text, and more.

June 2025

🌐 How to map hidden rural populations using existing data
PLUS: Why satellite forecasting models keep getting it wrong, further problems with foundation models, and more.
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🌐 How reliable are Landsat and Sentinel vegetation estimates?
PLUS: the surprising limits of flood infrastructure, the hidden costs of droughts, and more.
🌐 Your area estimates might be off
PLUS: Monitoring road damage from mobile phones, increasing the resolution of SAR images, and more.
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