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The following is an Environmental Monitor news article written by Alex Card on May 28, 2014, with the title above: From California to Russia to India, drought affects countless lives every year and can cause famine and civil unrest. Impoverished regions are the most susceptible to the harsher consequences of drought, where relief can depend on the generosity of foreign nations and agencies. A new rainfall monitoring dataset known as...

The following article, “Visualizing gun deaths – Comparing the U.S. to the rest of the world,” was written by Katie Leach-Kemon and posted March 21, 2014. Dr. Leach-Kemon, a weekly contributor of global health visual information posts for Humanosphere, is a policy translation specialist from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation: When it comes to gun violence, the United...

Five major Geography graduate awards and five undergraduate awards were handed out on May 22, 2014, just prior to the Geography Colloquium presentation, “Farming the Rock: Biogeochemical Controls on Intensive Agriculture in Polynesia,” by Professor Oliver Chadwick. Our Vice Chair, Professor Phaedon Kyriakidis, presented the graduate awards for Excellence in Teaching, Excellence in Research, the Leal Anne Kerry Mertes...