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The following article with the title above is from The American Scholar, Volume 79, No. 3, Summer 2010. Copyright c 2010 by Bret Wallach. The observations were made 4 years ago and still resonate today: We still argue over how to explain the great events of the post-Pleistocene. There’s the Neolithic Revolution for starters. Then the appearance of complex societies, as foolish a phrase as any, but the concise term civilization...

The UCSB Geography Newsletter is a biannual production, and electronic mailings occur in spring and fall each year. you can download a PDF of the 2014 Spring Newsletter here. The featured news item in this edition revolves around the Geography Department’s 40th Anniversary celebration, April 24-25. A Geography colloquium presentation by Professor Frank Davis will be given on the 24th, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, relating to the past,...

The following is an article by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, posted March 18, 2014, with the title above: International trade of food crops led to freshwater savings worth 2.4 billion US-Dollars in 2005 and had a major impact on local water stress. This is shown in a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Trading food involves the trade of virtually embedded water used for production, and...