Image above: PlanetScope image of seagrass habitats in Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand taken December 26, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. We often associate meadows with rolling country hills and charming picnics, but meadows also exist in the shallow waters along our global coastlines. And while these seagrass meadows […]
Image above: SkySat image of tailings dam failure in Jagersfontein, South Africa, captured September 12, 2022, the day after the failure. Global conversations around the safety of tailings dams – infrastructure where mining waste is meant to be contained – have been ongoing for the last few years. In 2019, the failing […]
Image above: PlanetScope image of rice paddies along the slopes of Mount Lawu, Indonesia taken September 17, 2022. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved. Along the sloping landscape of Mount Lawu in Central Java, Indonesia, farmers experience a wide variety of crop growth as a result of water availability. As […]
