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by Jared Diamond · Jared Diamond
Diamond compares societies that failed or survived environmental stress, among them Easter Island, Norse Greenland, the Maya, Rwanda and Montana, using a five-factor framework of ecological damage, climate, hostile neighbours, trade partners, and social response. Useful for structured comparative reasoning.
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Official site of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, publishing authoritative climate science assessments and policy-relevant summaries. It hosts Assessment Reports and Working Group contributions, Summaries for Policymakers, methodological guidance, data resources, and news.
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The U.S. Geological Survey's geography topic hub, gathering its mapping and land-change work: The National Map, National Land Cover Database, Landsat imagery, elevation and hydrography layers. Use it to locate authoritative U.S. spatial datasets and the documentation explaining how each was produced.
National Geographic Environment
National Geographic's environment desk: reported features and photo essays on climate, water, wildlife, energy, and pollution, illustrated with the magazine's cartography. Useful for current context and case examples, though it is journalism rather than a structured course or primary data.
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