Geography Strikes Back
• http://online.wsj.com, By ROBERT D. KAPLANTo understand today's global conflicts, forget economics and technology and take a hard look at a map
Contents Pages by Subject
Geography
Past Rapid Sea Rise
• arcleinents: the Meltwater pulse 1a (MWP1a) around 14,600 years ago and the '8,200 year' event. The research was published in Nature this week.
10 Breathtaking Viewing Platforms Worldwide
• THE WORLD GEOGRAPHYIt is exhilarating to stand on top of the world admiring the natural beauty of our planet spread beneath us. Bone-chilling ravines, steep cliffs, thundering waterfalls, snow-clad peaks or serene rivers, nature has been very kind to us. You need not b
This Island Formed In The Red Sea Practically Overnight
• www.businessinsider.comAn underwater volcanic eruption about 40 miles off the coast of Yemen has formed a new island in the Red Sea, reports NASA
Mysterious Symbols in China Desert Are Spy Satellite Targets, Expert Says
• LiveScienceNewfound Google Maps images have revealed an array of mysterious structures and patterns etched into the surface of China's Gobi Desert. The media — from mainstream to fringe — has wildly speculated that they might be Chinese weapons-testing sites, s
800-Mile-Wide Hot Anomaly Found Under Seafloor off Hawaii
• arcleinto question the traditional explanation: that a stream of hot rock directly from around Earth's core formed the 3,100-mile-long (5,000-kilometer-long) chain of islands and undersea mountains in the Pacific Ocean.
Pearl Mega City to Become Largest
• arcleinChina is planning to create the world's biggest mega city by merging nine cities to create a metropolis twice the size of Wales with a population of 42 million.
Global Water Assessment
• arcleinBoth human population and water resources are distributed unevenly across the globe. In many areas, densely populated regions do not overlap with those that are water rich. Due to the rapidly increasing population and water use per capita in many are
North American Continent as Layer Cake
• arcleinThese old floating pieces of the lithosphere, called cratons, apparently stopped growing about 2 billion years ago as the Earth cooled, though within the last 500 million years, and perhaps for as long as 1 billion years, the modern era of plate tect
BAHAMAS reporting Big 'BLUE' HOLES under Water
• godlikeproductions.comWhat lies below the Bahamas in the Caribbean? A veiled world of fossils, blind creatures and scientific riddles. In next month's issue of National Geographic magazine, an international team of cave divers led by anthropologist Kenny Broad of the Un
Ocean's Depth and Volume Revealed
• LiveScienceThe Earth's oceans are among the most mysterious places on the planet, but scientists now have at least figured out how deep the oceans are and just how much water they hold. A group of scientists used satellite measurements to get new estimates o
Frank Popper on Shrinking Cities
• arcleinIt’s very clear that the industrial decline as it’s still unfolding is almost exactly parallel to the earlier rural decline in the United States. In rural areas, agriculture reached a high point in the late 19th century, and then it started going thr
Nevada’s “Hottest” Tourist Spot Off-limits to State of Nevada
• GinnSeventy miles NE of Las Vegas is Nevada’s “hottest” spot: a 1,375-sq-mile area of volcanic peaks, dry lake beds, and pinyon pine forests. It's home to the site of 921 nuclear warheads detonated underground by the Federal govt in the 50’s.
U.S., Canada Map Edges Of Continent On Seafloor
• Washington PostA joint American-Canadian cruise exploring the frigid Arctic Ocean has
mapped broad swaths of the extended continental shelf for the first
time, scientists reported.
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