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The following is a climatecentral.org article by John Upton, published February 3rd, 2015, with the above title: The federal raids in Alta Floresta, Brazil surprised locals in 2005. The year before, nearly 60,000 acres of rainforest had been torn out of the municipality. Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police, accused of environmental crimes. “It was a radical operation,” the newly elected mayor later recalled...

Dog Therapy Day, hosted by UCSB’s Health & Wellness Center, is a great way for students to de-stress at the end of the quarter. The hands-on, interactive therapy is provided by Love on a Leash, the Foundation for Pet-Provided Therapy, and “Linkin,” one of Geography Professor Tommy Dickey’s purebred Great Pyrenees, is the star on its poster. According to UCSB Health & Wellness, 98% of dog owners report...

“Within the United States, the most well respected ranking system for graduate degree programs is the National Research Council (NRC). In 2010, the NRC released its rankings for geography departments. The NRC used multiple factors by which to rank geography departments such as time to degree, faculty input, and publications. Based on the aggregate results of that 2010 study, the site PhDs.org has ranked the top ten geography...