Global Change · Local Impact
Aloha and welcome to the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa! Geography is a diverse discipline that is united by its focus on global change and local impacts on humans and the environment. Our department was founded in 1932 and is consistently ranked among the top programs in the US. Our faculty have expertise across the breadth of the discipline in environmental geography, human geography, and geospatial information science, with a focus on Asia and the Pacific. Our BA, MA, and PhD students research topics such as environmental change, sustainability, and globalization and have gone on to careers in academia, government service, NGOs, and in the private sector.
Here's a new and needed way to think about the impacts of our food choices and food system. #food #farming #poverty
Our Food Is Killing the Planet — But It Doesn’t Have To • The Revelator
A new book asks, “Can we feed the world without destroying it?” The answers might surprise you.
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In Fiji, the frontline disaster responders are women. Their work is often forgotten.
@illied for @irinnews
Fiji’s unheralded frontline disaster responders: women
In hazard-prone Pacific Island nations, women do much of the work to guard against disasters but still have to fight to be heard.
www.irinnews.org
Soils are so vital but so often overlooked - great to see @PositiveNewsUK and @gavin_haines highlighting @TheUrbanWormCIC's work trying to reverse soil fertility decline
One woman’s response to soil insecurity? Worm husbandry - Positive News
Anna de la Vega started farming worms after studying soil degradation at university. It’s a passion she hopes many others will come to share
www.positive.news
Many thanks to the judges at the @PolkAwards for honoring our air pollution series @undarkmag. It is such an important story. {cc @sejorg). See the full series at
The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5 - Undark
Undark and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting visited seven countries on five continents to document a global killer. Here's what we found.
undark.org
24.9 million people worldwide were being held captive as forced laborers in 2018. Half of them in the Asia & Pacific region. But consumer pressure is turning the tide for people trapped in modern slavery. #StandUp4HumanRights
Modern slavery is on the rise in Asia, but new laws show consumer pressure is working
In 2018, 24.9 million people worldwide were being held captive as forced laborers. But consumer pressure is pushing the envelope.
medium.com
Swiss Alps—most of Switzerland’s “1,500 glaciers have retreated every year since 2001—many expected to all but vanish by 2090”—hydropower engineers adapt to the future: as glaciers disappear, climate change expected to increase Swiss rainfall and snowfall
Where Glaciers Melt Away, Switzerland Sees Opportunity
In parts of the Alps, the warming climate is making glaciers disappear. Now the Swiss have a plan to make use of the valleys left behind.
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#trees are good for our health - it's official. And there is an urgent need to plant more on a global scale. Join our campaign to plant more here: https://t.co/LfvwUFhyrx @yoe2019lcr @LiverpoolParks @DefraNature @WoodlandTrust @ForestryCommEng @CityofTreesMcr @Trees4Learning
A cool study shows ancient cereal crops spreading across the Eastern Hemisphere around 7,000 and 3,500 years ago. Apparently Lucky Charms did not exist that long ago.
#map #food #globalization #grains #cereal
Map shows how grains took over the world - Futurity
See how grains like rice and barley spread around the world—far before the Silk Road.
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How Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything #dams #damremoval #rivers #fish @americanrivers @NRCMenvironment @SalmonNews
How Removing One Maine Dam 20 Years Ago Changed Everything • The Revelator
The removal of the Edwards Dam on Maine’s Kennebec River helped river conservationists reimagine what’s possible.
therevelator.org
🐶 Dogs Before Instagram: Hoping this is the most popular @NYTimes article of the year. You go @jmwender ! #photography #dogs @nytimesphoto @NYTArchives
Dogs Before Instagram
Vintage photos from the New York Times archive show the enduring power of the pooch.
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