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More than 40% of China's arable land degraded: report (Agencies/chinadaily.com.cn)Updated: 2014-11-05 11:56 CommentsPrintMailLargeMediumSmall ? Villagers sow peanut seeds in Zaozhuang, East China's Shandong province on April 17, 2014. [Photo/IC]? More than 40% of China's arable land is suffering from degradation, seriously reducing the country's capacity to produce food for the world's biggest population, Xinhua reported Tuesday. The rich black soil in Northeastern Heilongjiang province, which forms part of China's bread basket, is thinning, while farmland in China's south is suffering from acidification, the report said, citing agriculture ministry statistics.

Global Survey Says We're Eating Better, But Our Diet Is Still?Unsustainable More people are eating local and organic foods, but that's not nearly enough. Jason Plotkin, owner of a small organic farm near Golden, Colorado, grapples with red, white, and golden beets he plans to sell at a farmers market. PHOTOGRAPH BY CYRUS MCCRIMMON, DENVER POST/GETTY Andrea Stone for?National Geographic PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 More people are eating local and organic foods and plan to consume less meat and bottled water. However, most also believe they lack enough information and influence to become more environmentally sustainable consumers, a new National Geographic survey has found. Share Share on emailEmail More ?

Livingston 1 Luke Livingston Mrs. Bassett Human Geography September 11, 2014

Luke Livingston Mrs. Bassett Human Geography 23 October 2014 Video Assignment 3

Unit 1 Cultural Geography Vocabulary Formal cultural region Functional culture region Vernacular culture region Syncretism Cultural diffusion Relocation diffusion Expansion diffusion Contagious diffusion Hierarchical diffusion Stimulus diffusion Acculturation Assimilation Dialects Lingua franca Franglais & Spanglish Extinct languages Revived languages Creole languages Pidgin languages Ethnic religion Universalizing religion Cultural landscapes Popular culture Ethnicity Ethnocentrism Race Racism Sequent occupance Globalization Exclave Enclave Protestantism Environmental Determinism Possibilism Confucianism Baha?i Daoism Folk Culture Isogloss Monotheistic Polytheistic Official language Time-distance decay Toponymy Transculturation Secular Concepts to know