Posts by geogadmin

“Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are just not that worried about it, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And that is keeping the American public from demanding and getting the changes that are necessary to prevent global warming from reaching a crisis, according to climate and social scientists” (source). “As top-level international negotiations to try...

“Seymour Narrows was once considered the most dangerous stretch of water on the inside passage of Vancouver Island. Between 1850 and 1953, more than 100 ships struck the rocks that lie just beneath the surface, and for many, this would be where they sank. In 1953, the BC government decided to do something about the problem and had Ripple Rock blasted apart in what turned out to be the largest peacetime non-nuclear explosion in the...

The following is a Pew Charitable Trust article by Seth Horstmeyer, Director of Global Ocean Legacy, posted on October 28, 2015: A week after a historic vote in the Palau Congress, President Tommy E. Remengesau Jr. signed legislation Oct. 28 that establishes one of the largest protected areas of ocean in the world. It’s the latest in a series of major wins for efforts to protect some of our most important and unspoiled ocean...