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Formerly undiscovered tectonic plates may explain mysterious Vityaz earthquakes
inhabitat - by Lacy Cooke
A previously undetected layer of tectonic plates may offer answers to the mysterious Vityaz earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. Researchers recently …
How Global Shipping Could Change Our Understanding of Biodiversity
WIRED - Nick Stockton
The global economy hasn't just opened up new markets for humans, it's been a catalyst for bringing species to into habitats where they don't belong. …
How to visualise social structure
The Guardian - Danny Dorling
Visualization is often about stories. Good stories are about seeing things differently. In my new book, I have tried to write a story as a way of introducing new ways of visualizing people in places. visualization
Opinion: Want to Make a Dent in World Hunger? Build Better Roads
National Geographic - Kenneth M. Quinn
Roads help farmers get their crops to market and their children to school, says Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn. When I was a 26-year-old, brand-new American foreign service officer, my vision of a diplomatic
Roads Benefit People But Can Have Massive Environmental Costs
National Geographic
Changing Planet Road-killed tapir in Peninsular Malaysia (photo © WWF-Malaysia/Lau Ching Fong) By William F. Laurance Located in the wrong places, roads can open a Pandora’s Box of problems, says William
Record Drought Reveals Stunning Changes Along Colorado River
National Geographic - Jonathan Waterman
Lake Powell is at historic lows, offering kayakers new channels to explore but raising the alarm about water. LAKE POWELL, Utah—In early September, at the abandoned Piute Farms marina on a remote edge
Immigration
The right kind of immigrant
The Economist
All large political parties agree: there has been too much immigration into Britain. More people now tell Ipsos MORI, a pollster, that immigration is …
The #1 reason people die early, in each country
Vox - Dylan Matthews
You're probably aware that heart disease and cancer are far and away the leading causes of death in America. But globally the picture is more complicated: The above map shows the leading cause of lost
Climate Change Helped Spark Syrian War, Study Says
National Geographic
Research provides first deep look at how global warming may already influence armed conflict. A severe drought, worsened by a warming climate, drove Syrian farmers to abandon their crops and flock to helping
How Singapore Became One Of The Richest Places On Earth
NPR - Jim Zarroli
Singapore has been called the 20th century's most successful development story. "I don't think any other economy," says Linda Lim, an economist at the University of Michigan, "even the other Asian tigers,
The incredible shrinking megacity: How Los Angeles engineered a housing crisis |
Salon - Henry Grabar
Los Angeles is not the only city with a regulation-induced housing shortage. As the cover story in this week’s Economist attests, the problem is global: From Mumbai to the Bay Area, the magazine writes,
Seniors outnumber children in Canada for first time, census shows
Reuters - by Leah Schnurr
Wearing sunhats elderly ladies chat in Victory Square in dowtown Vancouver July 22, 2003. REUTERS/Andy Clark OTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of seniors in Canada exceeded the number of children for the time