https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/energy-sprawl/ Recent content in Energy Sprawl on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:04:25 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/calculating-americas-energy-landscape/ Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:04:25 -0400 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/calculating-americas-energy-landscape/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/calculating-americas-energy-landscape/EnergyLandscape_solarplantMojave.jpg" alt="Large concentrated solar power plants, like this one in the Mojave Desert, have big a footprint on landscapes. Credit: Alan Radecki." loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Large concentrated solar power plants, like this one in the Mojave Desert, have big a footprint on landscapes. Credit: Alan Radecki.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Studying the landscape-scale impact of energy development, especially renewable energies, requires working at the interface where policy, business, activism, scientific research and stakeholders overlap. But determining broad-scale impacts comes down to having solid data — on key species, slope aspect, transmission distance and more — to understand and predict what happens on energy landscapes. Collecting, analyzing and sharing such data was the focus of several symposia at last summer&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.xcdsystem.com/scbna/website/index.cfm?CFID=6687623&amp;CFTOKEN=85668029&amp;jsessionid=d430a7bf5676df7e168335a2f7218714d457">North America Congress for Conservation Biology meeting</a> in Montana.</p>