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"Conservation groups say poachers are wiping out tens of thousands of elephants a year, more than at any time in the previous two decades, with the ivory trade becoming increasingly militarized." Yet another example of a "conflict resource" in Africa.
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Next best actions are selling your car, avoiding flights and going vegetarian, according to study into true impacts of different green lifestyle choices
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Not an easy conversaton...but one that returns to the table time and again.
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Acoustic survey of a small porpoise called the vaquita speeds last-ditch plans to save the species
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The impact of gillnets on marine mammals.
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As international powers intensify military and diplomatic activities in Syria, residents in besieged areas have gone without access to food and medicine.
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I began teaching my World Food Problems class today....unfortunately, we have plenty of examples....
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The renaming created rare unity between Republican and Democratic Buckeyes against President Obama, and even rarer agreement from members of both parties in Alaska praising him.
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The latest high profile discussion of toponyms. What is intriguing is that President Obama didn't "do" anything....he simply endorsed the name change that went through the official process, which would include an opportunity for public comment. Check out this link to the US Board on Geographic names: http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/old-name-restored-to-nations-highest-peak/?from=title
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Chinese textile manufacturers drawn by cheap cotton, falling labor costs and government incentives are helping revive depressed mill towns in the American South.
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An interesting twist in the evolution of the global textile industry. This article looks at a return to mill towns in the U.S. South. Also, there are some useful graphics that illustrate why this is occurring.
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Recent episodes show that projects like expanded roadways sometimes exacerbate racial and economic divides.
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If you read this article carefully, you will not that this is about more than just "urban renewal" and urban social geography. This is about boundaries, borders and other primal behavioral geographies. Great starter for a class on what boundaries/borders actually mean to us.
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Deaths rose sharply last summer, a survey by the Bee Informed Partnership reported, and beekeepers who rent hives to farmers were hit especially hard.
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This is a great article that illustrates a few very important cultural and political geographic concepts: commemoration of place and enclaves. It focuses on the recently destroyed tomb of Suleyman Shah in northern Syria by Turkish troops. Luckily for us geographers, it also includes a map and an aerial image. On a side note, it also offers an introduction into talking about "origin stories" with our students (in this case, the origins of the Ottoman Empire) and how important these stories remain in the modern world.
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Two real estate experts claim Starbucks is responsible for driving up the cost of homes near its stores – but evidence indicates it’s the other way around
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Good example of why correlation does not always suggest causation...
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-containerization-shaped-the-modern-world Sometimes a single unlikely idea can have massive impact across the ...
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In my World Food Problems class, we have been discussing the importance of globalization on the production, distribution and consumption of food. In particular, I have mentioned the crucial role containers have played in distributing food across successively larger distances. This video works very well as an introduction to both.
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What is your city's Williamsburg? What's its hippest—or formerly hippest—or sometimes just youngest—neighborhood, the one with the art galleries and the boutiques and the lines for brunch?
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This is a great way to begin a discussion on neighborhood change or gentrification. There is a wide variety of cities in the list, so it is sure to spark comment even with the most diverse group.
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A high-tech charting effort is slowly gaining ground as part of an effort to improve aviation safety in the state.
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When I reveal that I am a geographer, I sometimes get the question, "But haven't we explored everything yet?" Instead of getting irritated (as I did in the past), I use that question as an opportunity to talk about not only the breadth of geography but also the ever changing opportunities we have to improve our geographic knowledge. This article not only illustrates that, but also provides evidence that having accurate geographic knowledge can be a life or death situation.
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Geography Education News, by NCGE: News and updates from the National Council for Geographic Education
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NCGE strikes again! Another wonderful resource from this almost century old professional organization. This is a great resource for teaching ideas in Geography.
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The sudden chaos unleashed by damage to a dam’s spillway offered a dramatic reversal for Northern California, which until recently was parched by drought.
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Insights into how our perceptions of danger or risk shift when the weather promotes either drought or flood.
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About 20 years ago, the United States and Canada began introducing genetic modifications in agriculture. Europe did not embrace the technology. This is how it has played out.
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Interesting set of graphs that provide some evidence that GMOs are not all they were purported to be.
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The technology sector is not only reshaping economies and work environments. It is also reshaping the physical environments of cities large and small.
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On the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we are celebrating New Orleans' progress and creating a vision for its future.
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This website is the official account of NOLA's progress after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and is a celebration of the city's recovery 10 years on. The impact of Katrina will be a case study for one of the units in the LBST 2213 course I co-teach.
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The notorious swath of downtown is seeing an influx of tech companies and gentrification’s attendant indicators, and residents are trying to combat the sudden popularity of their area with education and appeals for integration
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Interesting take on gentrification in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.
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People have been farming — and eating — a GMO for thousands of years without knowing it. Scientists have found genes from bacteria in sweet potatoes around the world. So who made the GMO? Via Seth Dixon
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Once again, the term GMO has been used without regard for process. We need to make sure our students have a clear understanding of what it means for a crop to be "genetically modified" now. Although I get some eyerolls, this is why I continue to include an origin of agriculture segment in every introductory class I teach.. 
Jose Soto's curator insight,
August 5, 2015 9:48 PM
Yes, the title is somewhat misleading (isn't that almost expected these days?), since humanity has been selectively breeding crops since the first agricultural revolution and genetic alteration can occur independent of human intervention. Humanity has always been using the best technologies available to improve agricultural practices. The term GMO though, is usually reserved for scientific, technological modifications that were unimaginable 100 years ago.
Tags: GMOs, technology, agriculture.
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Smartphones may answer our navigation needs these days, but over the centuries, paper maps have done more than just get us from A to B
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Amen.
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Colonial mines polluted South America centuries before coal and oil
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I have recently (today) started a Google Alert with the subject "Anthropocene." I am interested in finding out how pervasive the term is on various outlets on the web. My first hit came from no less than the prestigious magazine Science.
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I have just added this to my Website of the Week extra credit opportunity for my World Food Problems class. The maps in this story are useful to discuss a host of different issues including: trophic levels, resources used to support omnivorous diets, and that farms are not created equal when it comes to feeding livestock versus humans. 
Bob Beaven's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 2:38 PM
These maps are interesting, in the fact that the heartland of the United States differs so much from either coast. Both the coasts, as seen in the first map grow fruits and vegetables. The center of the country grows wheat, and wheat is the dominant crop of the country. This might account for the reason why fruits and vegetables are more expensive than grain based products. The second map helps to drive home this point even further, of how different the coasts are from the heartland. What I also thought was funny, however, was the author's comment that it looks like an electoral map. Perhaps, the reason heartland states tend to side with each other and republicans is because of shared interests in the political arena. 
Adriene Mannas's curator insight,
March 22, 2015 10:24 AM
Unit 5 Agricultural and Rural Land Use
This picture and article talks about the main use of the agricultural growth in the United States. It shows how most and almost all of the agribusiness is in the growth of feed and food for animals on the ranches rather than humans. The amount of money made is astounding with how far the table tilts toward animal feed.
This relates to Human Geography because agriculture is one of the main points. It shows how people use agribusiness and ow it leans more toward the consumption of animals rather than humans. 
Daniel Lindahl's curator insight,
May 25, 2015 1:22 PM
This link consists of two maps that show agricultural land use in America. Nearly all of the "breadbasket region" is used not to feed people, but rather to create feed for cows and other animals.
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The US has discovered that one of the best ways of fighting invasive plants is also one of the oldest - goats.
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This episode of “Living City,” a video series about New York’s infrastructure, looks at the network of 19 reservoirs that make up the New York City watershed.
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This video looks at the coupling of natural and human systems that makes it possible to keep flowing into New York City to meet its demands. This is part of a larger series from the New York Times that examines the technologies and systems needed for the city to survive and thrive. As someone who has recently become interested in incorporating a systems thinking perspective into some of my classes, I think these are great resources to help students see connections that they might otherwise take for granted.
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Growth in the world’s population of humans is showing no signs of slowing down in the coming decades, and is expect to balloon to 11 billion by the year 2100. According to a sobering new study published this week in the journal Science, a team of researchers from the University of Washington and the United Nations used new statistical methods that actually reverses many earlier predictions pointing to a possible decline by middle of this century. To the contrary, this study expects the global p
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One of the concepts my students often struggle to understand is population momentum. This article very nicely captures the results of a new study published in "Science" that provides concrete examples of this idea. |
