As climate change alters rainfall patterns and river flows, tensions are bound to rise between states and countries that share rivers that cross their borders. In the Rio Grande Basin of the American Southwest, that future inevitability has arrived.
What’s on family dinner tables around the globe? Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book “Hungry Planet”
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
This gallery of 16 families from around world together with their week food is quite a treat that shows agricultural, development and cultural patterns. Pictured above is the Ayme family from Ecuador, just one of the many family’s highlighted in the book Hungry Planet. The Ayme family that typically spends $31.55 on food and commonly eat potato soup with cabbage.
Tags: food, agriculture, worldwide, consumption, unit 5 agriculture, book reviews, culture, development, unit 3 culture.
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A massive winter storm is coming together as two low pressure systems are merging over the U.S. East Coast. A satellite image from NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite on Feb. 8 shows a western frontal system approaching the coastal low pressure area.
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Cornerstone Christian school 7th grade science project. The effects of Altitude on air pressure and temperature. Cameras: GoPro Hero2 video footage. Edited B…
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
This is the coolest Junior High geospatial technologies project ever. This actually recorded some nice remotely sensed images. You can actually do something similar yourself with this balloon kit. You can read about some successful attempts to do this with geography students and colleagues from @AndrewShears which can be seen here and another by @bricker that is worth looking at here.
Tags: remote sensing, images, geospatial, edtech, geography education, unit 1 GeoPrinciples.
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The filmmakers present a 12-step program to establish the world’s newest country: South Sudan.
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
What does a state need to have to be politically viable? If you were to start your own country, what would you need to do? This isn’t just a hypothetical question since South Sudan is currently undergoing this process and having to answer these questions.
Tags: South Sudan, political, sovereignty, Africa, territoriality, states, unit 4 political.
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Months have gone by since the last of the grisly mass killings that have marked the conflict’s darkest moments.
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
Cartels are still fighting each other, but they are no longer taunting the military and the police by doing it in such a blatantly public manner. Drug-related homicides are stable (and alarmingly high) at 12,000 per year but less in the border cities and more in the northern interior. The cartels are trying to avoid engaging the military, seeing that “spectacular acts of violence only bring more pressure to bear on them.”
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“A visualization of migration flows”
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
This is a great way to visualizing global migration patterns. Where are people migrating to Brazil coming from? What countries are Brazilians migrating to? Here are the answers to these types of questions for every country.
Tags: migration, population, statistics, visualization, unit 2 population.
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Get the inside edge on the stories that connect Americans to the world — in your ear every week.
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
This video explains why geography teachers should be interested in Latitude News given it’s desire to show how global stories have regional impacts. They often have interesting perspectives on global stories that makes the geographic linkages explicit. They are currently raising funds to expand their reach.
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Emphasizing the importance of protecting the nation’s global image, marketers at the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton Strategies, Inc.
Seth Dixon, Ph.D.‘s insight:
I’ve got nothing but love for the good people of Alabama, but this spoof from the Onion is great.
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