Posts by geogadmin

The following is a ClimateCentral.org article by Brian Kahn, published February 12 2015, with the title above: Climate change is creating an “unprecedented” risk of severe drought in the Southwest and Central Plains. Rising temperatures and decreasing rainfall mean that future drought could be more extreme than any drought seen in at least the past 1,000 years, and the effects could reverberate for urban dwellers and...

“Australia is one of the most important nations on Earth for biodiversity. In fact, Australia is one of only 17 ‘megadiverse’ nations and is home to more species than any other developed country. Most of Australia’s wildlife is found nowhere else in the world, making its conservation even more important. 87% of our mammal species, 93% of reptiles, 94% of frogs, and 45% of our bird species are found only in...

The following is a wired.com article written by Greg Miller and posted on February 3 with the title above: So you fired up your GIS software and made an eye-popping, Christmas-colored map of holiday sales figures. Good job, genius, you’ve created a cartographic calamity: nearly unreadable by the color-blind and merely unintuitive to everyone else. You obviously haven’t met Cindy Brewer. Brewer, a geographer at Penn State,...