Posts by geogadmin

The following are extracts from an article by David Rogers, who writes for Politico Magazine online, that was posted May 28 and titled “Flood of child migrants a neglected challenge.” As Congress dithers over immigration reform, the children of Central America aren’t waiting. The past few years have seen a steady rise in the number of teenagers and younger boys and girls crossing the Southwest border unaccompanied by...

The following is an Environmental Monitor news article written by Alex Card on May 28, 2014, with the title above: From California to Russia to India, drought affects countless lives every year and can cause famine and civil unrest. Impoverished regions are the most susceptible to the harsher consequences of drought, where relief can depend on the generosity of foreign nations and agencies. A new rainfall monitoring dataset known as...

The following is a Duke University news article posted May 29, 2014 and titled “New Technologies Making It Easier to Protect Threatened Species”: Human actions have pushed extinction rates to 1,000 times faster than the natural rate, but a new Duke University-led study finds that emerging technologies could give scientists and policymakers a more efficient way to identify the species at greatest risk and take steps to...