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Federal authorities have closed Canada's only known live coral reef in the Pacific Ocean to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fishing.Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the indefinite closure came into effect on Feb. 14 for the Lophelia Reef, located in the Finlayson Channel of British Columbia's Central Coast, about 500 kilometres northwest of Vancouver and 200 kilometres directly east of Haida Gwaii.The department says the reef was first discovered in 2021 and is the "first and only" known live coral reef in…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Flood risk maps are an essential public good. Indeed, many countries like the United Kingdom already offer flood risk mapping. Canada committed to a public flood risk mapping portal in the 2023 budget. However, despite the increasing frequency and impact of large, catastrophic floods, we still have a sparse patchwork…

The size of the circles corresponds to the number of substances detected per sampling point. The colors quantify the number of chemicals detected simultaneously at a sampling site (e.g. 51 to 100 substances were detected in 41% of the sites). Credit: UFZ Many pesticides, industrial chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, as well as their degradation products, end up in streams and rivers after use. …

The basic principle of acoustic positioning with the white ship icon indicating the positions of the survey ship at different time. Credit: Satellite Navigation (2024). DOI: 10.1186/s43020-023-00124-3 The exploration of oceanic resources through seismic methods necessitates precise seafloor geophone positioning. Traditional techniques, however, grapple with issues such as the influence of outliers, suboptimal use of precise…

In this short piece, I use public Wikipedia data, Python programming, and network analysis to extract and draw up a network of…Continue reading on Towards Data Science » In this short piece, I use public Wikipedia data, Python programming, and network analysis to extract and draw up a network of…Continue reading on Towards Data Science » FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Assessing the effectiveness of international aid across Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country and an archipelago of around 17,000 islands, is no easy task. But that has not deterred Singapore Management University Assistant Professor of Political Science (Education), Nathan Peng. In his paper, "Political…

Migrating a large website is always daunting. Big traffic is at stake among many moving parts, technical challenges and stakeholder management. Historically, one of the most onerous tasks in a migration plan has been redirect mapping. The painstaking process of matching URLs on your current site to the equivalent version on the new website. Fortunately, this task that previously could involve teams of people combing through thousands of URLs can be drastically sped up with modern AI models.Should you use AI for…

Strategically enhancing address mapping during data integration using geocoding and string matchingMany individuals in the big data industry may encounter the following scenario: Is the acronym “TIL” equivalent to the phrase “Today I learned” when extracting these two entries from distinct systems? Your program might get confused too when records come in with different names even though it means the same thing. As we are pulling data with discrepancies together from different operational systems, the data ingestion…

Section of the world map focussing on Africa. Many colored dots mark the location and type of different forms of land use after deforestation. Credit: Screenshot of the app https://robertnag82.users.earthengine.app/view/africalu Africa's forested areas—an estimated 14 % of the global forest area—are continuing to decline at an increasing rate—mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for economic purposes. As…

Online shopping is a dynamic experience for customers, sparked by the awareness of a specific need or desire. As explored in “Mapping the customer journey for SEO and marketing success,” understanding your customers’ purchase path is vital. This article explores the intricate relationship between customer journey mapping and SEO’s role in optimizing strategies for ecommerce. From B2B to ecommerce: Navigating the customer journey The customer’s buying journey begins with recognizing a gap in the customer’s…