#SciFeature ๐๐ข๐ช ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฆ?
As Southeast Asiaโs capital cities continue to experience rapid urbanization and population growth, how much lush greenery still remains within these expanding urban landscapes?
Hereโs a visualization showing how much of the capital cities are still covered with forests, grasslands, or with considerable vegetation as of 2025, based on the latest update from the Esri Sentinel-2 10m Land Use/Land Cover data.
Greenery coverage across the 10 ASEAN capital cities varies greatly. Naypyidaw and Vientiane remain among the greenest, while densely populated capitals such as Jakarta and #Manila are already heavily built up with buildings, roads, and other infrastructure.
Urban forests and vegetation play a crucial role in reducing heat, improving air quality, and protecting water resources, helping make cities more livable and resilient.
Long-term efforts, such as in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, to restore and expand green spaces are already delivering benefits to residents, from cooler surroundings to healthier urban environments. #urban #environment #ASEAN
"Lahaina Noon," is a trippy phenomenon that happens twice a year in Hawaii, where all objects lose their shadows
It begins in Hawaii TODAY,
starting on the Big Island
Huge concern in New York that Zohran Mamdani is spending $122 million on schools and hiring 1,000 school teachers when that money could be buying bombs for Israel
In 2013, estimates suggested there were tens of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution in the worldโs oceans. If current trends continue, some projections suggest that by 2050 plastic could outweigh fish in the oceans by mass
This video was filmed in the Dominican Republic in July 2018.
A Palestinian boy mourns his father, one of three people killed in an Israeli strike on a security post in Gaza.
The attack is part of ongoing Israeli violence, despite a fragile ceasefire, which has killed at least 846 Palestinians, according to Gazaโs Health Ministry.
An NVIDIA-powered farming machine uses AI and precision lasers to destroy weeds in milliseconds without herbicides, offering a potential step toward chemical-free agriculture.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it.
When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
Sakan is a traditional Japanese plastering method that uses clay, sand, and straw over a bamboo lattice to create durable walls that naturally regulate humidity and stabilize indoor conditions.
We cannot stay silent.
Data centers are spreading across Malaysia without control.
Soon, they could use more electricity and water than all our homes combined.
To power them, we will need massive solar farms taking up huge land
And for what?
Very few jobs.
We give up our land, our energy, and our future
but get almost nothing in return.
This is not development. This is imbalance.
Malaysia must act now:
Set limits. Protect our land. Put people first.
Before itโs too late.
GOOGLE SEARCHES of each country in the Americas.
"Why is (my country) so..." ๐ค
๐จ๐ฆ Canada - Cold
๐บ๐ธ United States - Powerful
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico - Corrupt
๐ฌ๐น Guatemala - Poor
๐ง๐ฟ Belize - Poor
๐ญ๐ณ Honduras - Violent
๐ธ๐ป El Salvador - Violent
๐ณ๐ฎ Nicaragua - Poor
๐จ๐ท Costa Rica - Cheap
๐ต๐ฆ Panama - Diverse
๐จ๐บ Cuba - Poor
๐ญ๐น Haiti - Poor
๐ฉ๐ด Dominican Republic - Poor
๐จ๐ด Colombia - Poor
๐ป๐ช Venezuela - Poor
๐ช๐จ Ecuador - Small
๐ต๐ช Peru - Ugly
๐ง๐ด Bolivia - Poor
๐จ๐ฑ Chile - Hated
๐ฆ๐ท Argentina - White
๐บ๐พ Uruguay - Expensive
๐ง๐ท Brazil - Big
๐ต๐พ Paraguay - Poor