“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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe 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,...
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