THE STATE OF FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION IN THE WORLD Excerpt: The main indicator for monitoring progress on the eradication of hunger in the world reported here is the prevalence […]
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ARTICLE: World
Article via Sense&Sensability: Escaping The Malthusian Trap
Escaping The Malthusian Trap Excerpt: Worldwide human population has increased from around 800 million in 1800 to over 7 Billion in 2016. In Western Europe, food consumed per capita has […]
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Article via Mach: World’s population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100, U.N. report finds
World’s population could swell to 10.9 billion by 2100, U.N. report finds Excerpt: The world’s population could swell to 10.9 billion by the end of the century, a new United […]
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Article via Atlantic: Human Lives Might be Long Enough Already
Human Lives Might Be Long Enough Already Humanity has added three decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years. Science is only beginning to catch up. AMANDA MULL […]
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Article & Inforgraphic via VisualCapittalist: Mapped: The Median Age of the Population on Every Continent
Mapped: The Median Age of the Population on Every Continent Excerpt: Earlier this week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation published their annual letter that highlights the surprises they saw […]
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Article via TheGuardian: Cities from Scratch; Watch New Cities Rise from the Desert, Jungle and Sea
Cities from scratch; Watch new cities rise from the desert, jungle and sea Excerpt: “We’re in the midst of new cities fever,” says Prof Sarah Moser. The head of the new […]
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Article via NPR: Oh Dear: Photos Show What Humans Have Done To The Planet
Oh Dear: Photos Show What Humans Have Done To The Planet Humans have made an indelible mark on the planet. Since the mid-20th century, we’ve accelerated the digging of mines, […]
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Article via Metrocosm: Your World Map is Hiding Something
Your World Map is Hiding Something There is also another point supporting the view that Mercator is culturally biased. Often the top and bottom of the map are clipped unevenly, giving more space to the […]
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Infographic via BrilliantMaps: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country
Map Projections: Mercator Vs The True Size of Each Country November 11, 2018 While it’s well known that the mercator projection distorts the world, the maps here show very clearly […]
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Article via TimeandDate.com: Time Zone News-Countries That Change Their Clocks
For class: You can use this during your discussion on Greenwich Mean Time, the Prime Meridian, and how the natural environment and political geography impacts people’s daily lives. Time Zone […]
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NEWS via WHO: Air pollution caused one in eight deaths
WHO: Air pollution caused one in eight deaths By Arshiya Khullar, for CNN March 25, 2014 — Updated 1417 GMT (2217 HKT) Poor women and children who spend time at home are […]
Read MoreInteractive RESOURCE: PeopleMovin-Migration Flows Across the World-A Visualization
This Flash site provides a visualization of migration flows in and out of every country in the world. Top emigration locations are also listed.
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NEWS via Quartz.com: Here’s what the future of car navigation looks like
Here’s what the future of car navigation looks like By Leo Mirani @lmirani March 12, 2014 In 1946, Jorge Luis Borges wrote “On Exactitude in Science,” a very short story about an empire […]
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VIDEO via TED: Explaining Population Growth
NEWS via TurkishPress: World’s population at risk from organism-borne diseases
World’s population at risk from organism-borne diseases Tuesday, March 11, 2014 GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has released information stating that more than half of the world`s population […]
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VIDEO RESOURCE via NPR: Visualizing How a Population Grows so Big so Fast
NPR: Visualizing How a Population Grows so Big so Fast This is a great video clip that shows how populations slow and quicken as certain “checks” are added or subtracted. […]
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INTERACTIVE via Ramiro Gómez: Country Shape Quiz
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INFOGRAPHIC via John Nelson: Earthquakes since 1898
INFOGRAPHIC via Drew Skau: Vaguely Rude Place Names of the World
Click on the info graph above to interact with place names. Totally inappropriate, totally hilarious. Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. […]
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NEWS via HeritageDaily: 17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration
17th- and 18th-century risk of disease through Migration HERITAGE March 3, 2014 – No comments The fate of migrants moving to cities in 17th- and 18th-century England demonstrates how a single pathogen could […]
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INFOGRAPHIC via Visual.ly: GLobal Life Expectancies from Birth
INFOGRAPH via PRB: 2013 World Population Data Sheet
Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.
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NEWS via PewResearch: Global Population Estimates by Age, 1950-2050-INTERACTIVE
JANUARY 30, 2014 Global Population Estimates by Age, 1950-2050 The demographic future for the U.S. and the world looks very different than the recent past. Growth from 1950 to 2010 […]
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NEWS via Al Jazeera: How the North Ended up on Top of the Map
How the north ended up on top of the map by Nick Danforth @ajam February 16, 2014 A cartographic history of what’s up McArthur’s Universal Corrective Map of the World.Flickr A world map […]
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NEWS via APA: UN: There are 232 million international migrants worldwide
Years later, we still see evidence that Earnst Ravenstein’s Laws of Migration are still at work. -The Human Imprint ▇ ▅ █ ▅ ▇ ▂ ▃ ▁ ▁ ▅ ▃ […]
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