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USA: The unseasonable warmth broke temperature records in more than 1,054 locations between March 13–19, as well daily lows in 627 locations, according to Hamweather. Cities as geographically diverse as Chicago, Des Moines, Traverse City (Michigan), Myrtle Beach, Madison (Wisconsin), Atlantic City, New York City, and Duluth, (Minnesota) all broke records for high temperatures in recent days.
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Explore and vote on the best Google Maps satellite imagery around the world.
Much like sites that you can rate items up or down, you can rate the best aerial photography via Google Earth screen shots. There are some beautiful images and places to be discovered through this site. The physical and human landscapes are both intermingled in this fantastic collection of images…be careful, it can be amazingly addictive. For more from the producer of this site, see: http://paulrademacher.com or follow on twitter @paulrademacher.
Some of my personal additions to this gallery include the Paseo de la Reforma sector of Mexico City, Hamburg, Germany, Venice, Italy, Cape Cod, MA, Drumlin city of Friedrichshafen-Raderach in Southwest Germany, a meteor create lake, Pingualuit Lake in Northern Quebec, the Angkor Wat complex in Cambodia, the Great Salt Lake, UT, Citadella, Italy, Mexican Hat, Utah, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado (zoom out for a fire-ravaged image) and the “Twelve Apostles” in Australia.
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TheNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) new director, Letitia Long, unveiled her new vision.
1)–Provide online, on-demand access to GEOINT knowledge by giving users access to all GEOINT content, services, expertise and support, while providing tools that allow them to serve themselves.
2)–Create new value by broadening and deepening NGA’s analytic expertise, through a deeper contextual analysis of places informed not only by the earth’s physical features and imagery intelligence, but also by “human geography.”
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Learn more about the ethnic, religious and political powerplays in and around Iraq during a virtual tour of the region led by NBC’s Richard Engel.
This is an incredibly well-put together, video/slideshow about the complex geography of within Iraq that has lead to so many difficulties in the post-Saddam Hussein era.
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This talk (based on his controversial book, Collapse) explores the economic and environmental causes behind why a society that is overextended might collapse or recede from a golden age. Jared Diamond uses multiple historical examples such as classical Mayan civilization and Easter Island as well as modern societies such as Rwanda and Haiti, to argue that unsustainable management of the environmental resources might lead to short-term economic successes, but the environmental degradation may threaten the long-term economic viability of the economic system. This talk ties agricultural patterns, economic practices and political policies that can strengthen or weaken a society and the book looks to the past to assess the challenges of the present and future. This TED talk brings geographic concepts and spatial thinking to many of contemporary global issues.
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“Teaching sustainability invariably involves teaching about energy – its use, its sources, its environmental impacts, and its social implications. This paper explores how one renewable energy alternative – biogas – is adapted and applied across scale and culture.”
This scholarly article (produced by an AP Human Geography reader and Penn State Geographer) in the Journal of Sustainability Education has many different applications: development, renewable energy usage and environmental sustainability.
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The twists and turns of metropolitan population growth are reviewed in William Frey’s examination of recently released Census Bureau data separating the bubble and bust years of the past decade.
Key urban demographic changes from 1980-2010:
–Metropolitan growth in both the Sun Belt and Snow Belt tapered in the 2000s, after accelerating in the 1990s.
–Growth slowed considerably during the latter part of the 2000s, especially in “bubble economy” metropolitan areas.
–Suburbs continued to grow more rapidly than cities in the 2000s, but growth rates for both types of places declined from their 1990s levels.
–Exurban and outer suburban counties experienced a population boom and bust in the 2000s.
–Hispanic dispersion to “new destination” metropolitan areas and suburbs dropped sharply in the late 2000s.
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“The threat of climate change is an increasingly important environmental issue for the globe. Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market-based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change. When I showed an early draft to colleagues, their response was that I had left out the arguments of skeptics about climate change, and I accordingly addressed this at length.”
This is an excellent summary of the scientific basis for anthropogenic climate change as a scientific reality. It addresses the concrens of climate change skeptics, point by point and notes flaws in the logic, data or reasoning.
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Sagira Ansari is among the thousands of children working in hazardous industries that are crucial to the Indian economy.
This gallery of 9 images with captions is an excellent lens for showing life in South Asia and child labor issues.
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