A Stanford News Report by Rob Jordan, dated July 8, 2015, and with the title above states that researchers have found that shark attacks on the California coast have dropped by more than 91 percent since 1950: We are in the midst of a shark frenzy. In recent weeks, there has been a spate of reported attacks on both coasts of the United States. The frenzy, however, appears to be more a product of our fears than an actual uptick in the...
Read MoreThe following is a CityLab.com article written by Kriston Capps and posted July 7, 2015, with the title above: Cartograms are fun tools for swapping out land area for some other variable. For certain figures, especially data that swing wildly at one of the end of the spectrum or another, cartograms are ideal. They’re great at showing systems that are out of balance—and nothing’s more out of whack than New York...
Read MoreThe following article was written by UCSB Geography Professor Leila Carvalho and posted on TheConversation.com on June 26, 2015, with the title “Megacity drought: Sao Paulo withers after dry ‘wet season.’”: Exceptional drought, extreme temperatures, unprecedented drops in reservoir levels and threatening water shortages for millions of people have dominated headlines in California in recent years....
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