“These seven maps and charts, visualized by The Washington Post, will help you understand how diverse other parts of the world are in terms of languages.”
Tags: language, culture, infographic.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“Stratfor provides geopolitical analysis that is relevant for world regional geography classes, especially their ‘Geographic Challenge’ series. Videos in the ‘Geographic Challenge’ series are symbolized on this map as RED numbered pushpins, and other regional Stratfor videos are BLUE.” http://arcg.is/1IeK3dT Also see my map of my favorite geography videos to share in the classroom http://bit.ly/KDY6C2
Source: www.arcgis.com
I produced this interactive on ArcGIS online to spatially index over 70+ videos from Stratfor, a leader in providing geopolitical intelligence. This is a great starting point for a student researching a country and some of the issues and challenges that it confronts.
Tags: mapping, video, ESRI, geography education, geopolitics, political.
You might not be feeling the effects of climate change, but Kiribati, a small country in the Pacific, is actually drowning because of rising sea levels. Check out how the government there is trying to run a country that might not exist in a few years.
Source: www.youtube.com
The impacts of climate change might feel far off or something that will affect other places…not so for the citizens of Kiribati. This video is the 1 minute version of the political/environmental situation, and this is the 15 minute version.
Tags: Kiribati, Oceania, environment, resources, water, coastal, environment depend, climate change, political ecology.
Is the conflict due to geographical rivalry, sectarian divisions, disappointment after the 2011 revolution or is it part of a wider regional power play?
Source: www.bbc.com
Saudi Arabia has recently announced that they stop their 4 week long bombing campaign against a rebel group in Yemen. Like many complex geopolitical conflict, it is hard for students to begin to understand what the fighting is really about, but this article is a solid introduction to the Yemen conflict.
Source: www.youtube.com
If there is one thing that the modern political order can’t stand it is letting unclaimed land remain unclaimed…even if it covered in frozen ice. See some of the competing claims (and international agreements) on the political status of Antarctica. Click here to see a similar analysis on competing claims over the North Pole.
Tags: Antarctica, climate change, political, resources,water, sovereignty.
China’s President Xi Jinping has signed a deal with Pakistan promising $46bn (£30.7bn) of investment.
China plans to inject some $46bn – almost three times the entire foreign direct investment Pakistan has received since 2008. Many say Mr Sharif’s penchant for “thinking big” and China’s increasing need to control maritime trade routes may well combine to pull off an economic miracle in Pakistan.
But there are questions over Pakistan’s ability to absorb this investment given its chronic problems with militancy, separatism, political volatility and official corruption.
China is worried about violence from ethnic Uighurs in its mostly Muslim north-western Xinjiang region and fears hard-line separatists could team up with Uighur militants fighting alongside members of Pakistan’s Taliban.
Source: www.bbc.com
California has enough water—that’s not the problem, says Terry Tamminen. So here’s how you solve the drought crisis.
Source: www.cnbc.com
There is no easy fix to a complex problem such as the water shortage in California. Some coastal cities are considering desalinization projects while others want to reduce environmental regulations that protect wetland ecosystems to harness all of the freshwater available. One of the issues is that most of California’s precipitation occurs during a very short time frame. Before the water crisis, these potential flood waters were diverted into concrete management canals but this article advocates to build more underground cisterns to capture excess rainfall before it flows to the ocean.
Tags: consumption, California, water, environment, resources, environment depend, urban ecology.
“When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” ~Benjamin Franklin
“To get to the bottom of what qualifies as ‘badly designed,’ we picked the brains of several urban planners to highlight the flaws of some of the world’s biggest cities. In the end, that birthed a list of nine cities that, for various reasons, are gigantic messes in some way or another.”
On the list: Jakarta, Dubai, Atlanta, Naypyidaw, São Paulo, Boston, Brasilia, Missoula and Dhaka.
Tags: urban, planning, urbanism.
Source: www.thrillist.com
“The Deepwater Horizon spill in 2010 is the largest accidental marine spill in U.S. history: these are the pivotal discoveries scientists and environmentalists have learned from researching it. While researching the spill, scientists tracked deep-sea sharks, found new mud dragons, and discovered a new type of ocean current.”
Tags: water, conservation, physical, biogeography, environment, pollution, resources.
Source: www.smithsonianmag.com
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