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Jul 14
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Data Foundation
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Aug 28
Satellites can now spot methane leaks that used to be invisible — at oil & gas sites, landfills, coal mines. But as this tech goes from research to real-world use, one question matters most: can different teams agree on what they're measuring? 🧵
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Data Foundation
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Aug 27
Announcing the Semantic Commons for Climate, Nature, & Economy (CNE) — a new initiative from Data Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and Basque Centre for Climate Change to fix a core problem in climate and nature data: nobody agrees on what the terms mean. 🧵
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Data Foundation
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Aug 26
New from Data Foundation: a policy brief on reforming FEMA in the context of billion-dollar disasters nearly doubling from 2019 to 2024 (14 → 27), and GAO putting federal disaster assistance on its High-Risk List last year. 🧵
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Data Foundation
@data_foundation
Aug 18
🗓️ govDATAx is one month away. Sept 15, 2026 @ GWU — a full day on the value public data delivers, and the cost when it's unavailable or underutilized. Secure your spot now 🧵
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