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To pollinate the innumerable almond blossoms that must be pollinated, honey bees are shipped into California in January. Without an interstate network of traveling apiarists, sufficient fertilization of the flowers to current industrial levels could…

Sugar Maples, a staple of Eastern North America, are on the move. As climate change renders parts of its current habitat unsuitable, the species will expand to new areas as they become more befitting. Besides their beautiful changing leaves in the…

Over the last decade, the United States has seen exponential growth in solar energy, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Solar prices have seen a dramatic decline and…

Shan-Xi is a plateau province in North China known for its rich historical legacies. As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, Shan-Xi's history of human activities can be traced all the way back to the Paleolithic age. However, this…

Based on the above maps, in Lower Westchester, there is a positive correlation between impervious surface cover and heat vulnerability and a negative correlation between tree canopy cover and heat vulnerability. Due to albedo and other geophysical…

Along with the ever growing presence of global warming, many coastal areas are at high risk of flooding. This is due to increased inclement weather, both in intensity and frequency, as well as sea level rise. The digitized polygons from the…

Belfast's Resilience Strategy outlines the risk of conflict as a potential threat to climate resilience. It argues that cross-community collaboration and cohesion will be necessary to weather increasingly volatile storms and enable the govenrment to…

Government spending for agriculture in the U.S. is incredibly high, as the farming system the country currently runs on is based on large monocrop systems that grow commodity crops dependent on huge government subsidies. These maps display the…

In order to combat climate change, it is imperative to replace individual automobile and air travel with mass transportation. The US Inter-City Rail system is lacking serious connections. Bus systems and routes can be useful in locations that are…

Although Manhattan has a higher population density and less open space compared to the Bronx, it has fewer heat islands. This insinuates that factors other than open space are responsible for these temperature differences; perhaps extra amenities are…