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.
New!! Undergraduate Certificate in Geospatial Information Science
Operation Identification at Texas State University works to identify the remains of people who die in the borderlands #violentborders
After Grim Deaths In The Borderlands, An Effort To Find Out Who Migrants Were
More than 200 migrants die attempting to cross the Southwest border each year. Slowly, scientists at a Texas laboratory are seeking the story of their...
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One of the drivers behind the looming extinction of many of our endangered species is wildlife trafficking.
Learn more at @Revelator_News.
What Does the World Need to Understand About Wildlife Trafficking? • The Revelator
“Wildlife crime is organized crime, not an ‘animal rights’ issue,” says World Pangolin Day and Annamiticus founder Rhishja Cot...
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How old is some of the plastic we find on the beach? This Tallon jet car, discovered after winter storms, is from 1962. Some 57 years old. #plasticheritage #oceanplastic #plasticarchaeology
Paraguayan indigenous community goes digital to protect ancestral lands | #landrights #propertyrights #digital
Paraguayan indigenous community goes digital to protect ancestral lands
By Daniela Desantis ISLA JOVAI TEJU, Paraguay (Reuters) - Rumilda Fernández's indigenous ...
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In Indonesia, a flawed certification scheme lets illegal loggers raze away: https://t.co/4CYt8g4Qu8
There's a long history of govts using maps to seize Indigenous lands. But since the 90s, Indigenous communities have been deploying mapping tactics as a mode of resistance, resurgence & education, & unlike the govt, theirs are rooted in ancestral knowledge
Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories
Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, map...
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I wrote a tutorial for how I draw hand-drawn hillshade, up on my blog now. Each step has a time lapse video showing the process. Enjoy! https://t.co/eILxpiJKaH 🗻
#cartography #drawing #nacis2018
Today, nearly 60 percent of kids get to school by car, almost four times as many as in the late 1960s, when just 16 percent of children did so.
Long School Commutes Are Terrible for Kids
Children who live farther away from their schools get significantly less sleep and exercise, new research shows.
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[1 year ago] Can India’s ‘People’s Forest’ also serve as a haven for rhinos? https://t.co/N6yozNqYEG
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China's government considers fasting to be "a sign of extremism," according to Amnesty International.
China Bans Uighur Ethnic Minority From Observing Ramadan
The government tightened religious restrictions on Uighurs for the Muslim holy month.
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Elemental Yosemite. A moody terrain experiment taking up space on my HD that I had no idea what do with. Then along came the Monochrome Mapping Competition.
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