Chinese top legislator Zhang Dejiang on Sunday pledged to enhance environmental legislation and oversight of pollutant emissions, as Beijing continued to be shrouded in a spell of lingering smog. The […]
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ARTICLE: Recent Human Geography News
via Inquirer: Urban farming Pushed to help Attain Food Self-Sufficiency
Urban farming pushed to help attain food self-sufficiency By Ronnel W. Domingo Philippine Daily Inquirer 12:39 am | Saturday, March 8th, 2014 Read more: http://business.inquirer.net/165648/urban-farming-pushed-to-help-attain-food-self-sufficiency#ixzz2vUk3IoTi Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook The […]
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NEWS via Saratogian: China worries it’s losing the Pop-Culture Arms Race
China worries it’s losing the pop-culture arms race By Gu Jinglu and William Wan, The Washington Post POSTED: 03/07/14, 6:14 PM EST | BEIJING — There is no shortage of […]
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NEWS via NewYorkTimes: Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help
Some Who Fled Cuba Are Returning to Help By DAMIEN CAVEMARCH 4, 2014 At Atelier, foreigners and Cubans find food and service that had disappeared from Havana for decades. Credit […]
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NEWS via Telegraph: The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis
The maps which explain the Ukraine crisis As Russia and Ukraine come ever closer to blows over Crimea, we explain, using maps, the issues at stake 10:35AM GMT 04 Mar […]
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NEWS via NBCNews: First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia
First Americans May Have Been Stuck in Beringia for Millennia BY ALAN BOYLE WILLIAM MANLEY / IAAR / UNIV. OF COLO. This map shows the outlines of modern Siberia (left) […]
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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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NEWS via HinduBusinessLine: ‘Agriculture dependent population in India grew by 50% during 1980-2011’’
‘Agriculture dependent population in India grew by 50% during 1980-2011’’ According to a report of the Worldwatch Institute, the economically active agricultural populations of China and India grew by 33 […]
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NEWS via Gizmodo: Mapping the Geographical Digital Divide
Mapping the geographical digital divide This Gizmodo map of average Internet speeds by congressional district shows how disparate access to the web is.
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NEWS via Time: This Map Shows Where in the U.S. You Have the Highest Chance of Getting Struck by Lightning
This Map Shows Where in the U.S. You Have the Highest Chance of Getting Struck by Lightning PSA of the day By Olivia B. Waxman @OBWaxFeb. 28, 2014 Today, Atlantic Cities points out that […]
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NEWS via National Geographic: Behind the Headlines: History and Geography Help Explain Ukraine Crisis
Behind the Headlines: History and Geography Help Explain Ukraine Crisis The country rests precariously between East and West. A woman wipes away tears as she walks away from a memorial […]
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NEWS vía Global Times: Island Migration – Canada Closes it’s Doors
Island migration Recently, Canada announced that it would end its investor program, closing off another path for Chinese immigrants. However, as Canada closes the door, island countries such as St […]
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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 Pew Research: Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012
Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012 U.S. top sending country; India top receiving country Click above for full interactive “Remittances” are funds or other assets sent to their home countries by […]
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NEWS via Channel NewsAsia: Virginia to be first US state to include “East Sea” in textbooks
The US State of Virginia has recently voted to include the name “East Sea” in its history and geography textbooks, alongside what is now marked only as the “Sea of […]
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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 Nat’l Geographic: The Growth of Megacities
Geography in the News: The Growth of Megacities Posted by Neal Lineback of Geography in the NewsTM on February 17, 2014 By Neal Lineback and Mandy Lineback Gritzner, Geography in the NewsTM Megacities’ Expansive […]
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NEWS via the Guardian: Time running out for China’s one-child policy after three decades
Time running out for China’s one-child policy after three decades As list of exemptions grows, experts predict scrapping of rule said to have prevented 400m births Even if the one-child […]
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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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NEWS via Pew Research Center: As the population grays, Americans stay upbeat
As the population grays, Americans stay upbeat BY RAKESH KOCHHARLEAVE A COMMENT One-in-five Americans are expected to be 65 and older by mid-century, and this could be a problem for the […]
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NEWS via Times-Picayune: Shotgun geography: the history behind the famous New Orleans elongated house
Shotgun geography: the history behind the famous New Orleans elongated house Few elements of the New Orleans cityscape speak to the intersection of architecture, sociology and geography so well as […]
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NEWS via Business Insider Australia: These Maps Show Which Areas Of The Country Have The Biggest Carbon Footprints
These Maps Show Which Areas Of The Country Have The Biggest Carbon Footprints KELLY DICKERSON YESTERDAY AT 10:01 AM 19 It’s no secret that the U.S. is one of the biggest carbon […]
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NEWS via AlaskaDispatch: How religion in the US today tracks closely with geography
How religion in the US today tracks closely with geography Brad KnickerbockerThe Christian Science Monitor February 9, 2014 Tell me where you live, and there’s a good chance I’ll know […]
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NEWS via CNN: 7 Things you Probably Didn’t know about Maps
7 things you probably didn’t know about maps By Frances Cha, CNN February 3, 2014 — Updated 1011 GMT (1811 HKT) London-based map dealer Daniel Crouch shares a few unusual or […]
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NEWS via CNN: Mainland Chinese line up for Australia’s ‘millionaire visa’
Mainland Chinese line up for Australia’s ‘Millionaire Visa’ By Peter Shadbolt, for CNN February 4, 2014 — Updated 1145 GMT (1945 HKT) Chinese immigration into Australia now represents the third largest […]
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