Posts by geogadmin

“The inhabitants of Easter Island consumed a diet that was lacking in seafood and was, literally, quite ratty.” Owen Jarus, writing for Livescience.com, points out the implications in an article titled “Diet of Easter Islanders Revealed: Rats!”: The island, also called Rapa Nui, first settled around A.D. 1200, is famous for its more than 1,000 “walking” Moai statues, most of which originally faced...

School and team emblems, notably Native American mascots, nicknames, and logos, have come under attack in the last few years by the politically correct police, and emblems such as the Dartmouth College “Indian” have bitten the dust (Dartmouth is now simply “The Big Green”; actually, the Indian was never the official mascot). Even professional sports are under fire to comply with the U.S. Commission on Civil...

Scientists think they know why some European glaciers started to shrink decades before climate change had begun to raise temperatures. It wasn’t warming that attacked the glaciers, they say in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was soot from industry, steam locomotives, and domestic fires. Alex Kirby, a former BBC environment correspondent and founding journalist of Climate News Network, sums up the findings...