“Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc., account for nearly 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector. It is now clear that in order to constrain the impacts of climate change within limits that society will reasonably be able to...
Read MoreThe following is a University of Virginia news release written by Media Relations Associate Fariss Samarrai and posted August 7, 2015 with the title above: In 1884, a delegation of international representatives convened in Washington, D.C. to recommend that Earth’s prime meridian (the north-south line marking zero degrees longitude) should pass through the Airy Transit Circle at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. (A...
Read MoreAlumnus Jordan Hastings, an accomplished practitioner, manager, and educator, has a diverse background of academic and public-sector experiences in management of geographic/scientific data, and he will be working at the Center for Spatial Studies as Assistant Project Scientist from August to December 2015. Jordan received his PhD in Geography in 2009 while simultaneously employed as the Chief Cartographer and GIS Manager for the...
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