A breathtaking view from behind the majestic Seljalandsfoss waterfall showcases the cascade against the lush green summer landscape and a partly cloudy sky. The perspective from inside the cave creates a natural frame as the waterfall cascades from a rocky cliff above.

https://joan-carroll.pixels.com/featured/seljalandsfoss-iceland-waterfall-2-joan-carroll.html

#waterfall #falls #iceland #seljalandsfoss #cave #landscape #majestic #rocky #powerful #cascade #cascading #buyart #wallart #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #wallartforsale #giftideas @joancarroll

New Research Aims To Better Predict And Understand Cascading Land Surface Hazards
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https://phys.org/news/2025-06-aims-cascading-surface-hazards.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adp9559 <-- shared paper
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#interconnected #geology #engineeringgeology #landcover #landsurface #GIS #spatial #mapping #landcover #hydrology #water #geomorphology # geomiorphmetry #risk #hazard #extremeweather #climatechange #cascading #cascadinghazards #debrisflow #wildfire #massmovement #landslides #flood #flooding #mudflow #susceptibility #chainreaction #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #prediction #management #planning #mitigation #multifactor #sediment #erosion #fluvial #earthquake #fault #faulting #hazardassessment #riskassessment #volcano #vulcanism #sealevelchange #cryosphere #ice #snow #GLOF #humanimpacts #urban #infrastructure #cost #economics #loss #damage #earthobservation #remotesensing #LiDAR #UAV

#Cascading #Orchids #Reflecting By Kaye Menner #photography #prints #lovely #products at
https://buff.ly/3DuaS2J
#Art #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica

'Rastoke Croatia #15'
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rastoke-croatia-15-jasna-dragun.html

'Rastoke Croatia #7'
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/rastoke-croatia-7-jasna-dragun.html

#CloudFlare had an #incident late last week affecting their #services. This has been widely commented upon, because #reliability is their raison d'etre (sorry if my French spelling is bad...).

A writeup: https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/07/cloudflare_datacenter_outage/

To me, this should count as a resounding success. Even with a #cascading #failure of systems, backups, and #recovery procedures, customers' sites still didn't go down - they lost access to analytics and the ability to make changes, but no actual outage.

#Bravo!

Given so many of us grew up on stories of the Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly (and songs like The Court of King Caratacus), I do not understand why IT folk forget to think about #cascading errors so regularly.

Earth's Retreating Glaciers Are Creating Huge Alien Ecosystems | Future Emergence Of New Ecosystems Caused By Glacial Retreat
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https://interestingengineering.com/science/earths-glaciers-50percent-alien-habitats <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06302-2 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #remotesensing #glacial #postglacial #glacier #glaciers #retreat #melting #snowandice #landscape #landform #geomorphology #geomorphometry #anthropogenic #climatechange #ecosystems #glaciershrinkage #meltingglaciers #cascading #consequences #impacts #humanimpacts #global #analyses #deglaciated #model #modeling #spatiotemporal #ecology #biodiversity #freshwater #waterresources #water #hydrology #mitigation #protection

A little more color on this announcement..
https://fosstodon.org/@cwensel/110549001614086663

First, #ApacheParquet removed #Cascading support, so I had to splice the original source into Cascading. But the ParquetScheme didn't honor type information fully. So there is a new TypedParquetScheme that has native support for JSON and Timestamps.

Second, Parquet requires the #ApacheHadoop FileSystem, which means we get the wonderful S3A implementation. But we also get a 331MB jar dependency with the aws bundle.

The Global Transboundary Climate #Risk Report 2023

Complex #climate risks that are transboundary and #cascading remain a blind spot in climate #policy. This report draws on case studies to explore 10 #transboundary climate #risks of global importance. https://www.sei.org/publications/transboundary-climate-risk-report-2023/

#photography #fotografía #fotografie #waterfallwednesday #cascading #surf #sea #Cozumel #wednesday #waves #water #nature #naturephotography
#LauraCochranPhotography

A new tool developed by #European and #Australian scientists shows that #cascading extinctions of interconnected #species are unavoidable due to #climatechange. The Earth is expected to lose 10% of its #animals and #plants by 2050, rising to 27% by 2100.

This is especially concerning as we continue to see the effects of climate change on our planet. It highlights the urgent need to address climate change and protect #biodiversity.

Science Advances article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn4345

Hello Mastodon, or is it Tootland? I'm so confused...I will just blunder on, confused as usual!

I'm Heidi Stenner, a #hazards geologist and Project Manager with #GeoHazards International (#GHI) a non-profit focused on working with lower-resourced global communities who are at high risk of natural hazards and climate change impacts.

I have been an #earthquake #geologist and #paleoseismologist with USGS. Migrated into #scicomm #disasterprep. I'm most interested in #EQ #landslide #volcano #compound #concurrent #cascading #disasters and how to #mitigate #adapt #plan to reduce their impacts.