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Apr 17, 2018 · The 100th meridian west – the invisible line of longitude that roughly bisects the continental US in half – was historically seen as a boundary separating the humid eastern states from their arid western counterparts.
Apr 11, 2018 · The 100th meridian west (solid line) has long been considered the divide between the relatively moist eastern United States, and the more arid West. Climate change may already have started shifting the divide eastward (dotted line).
Apr 27, 2018 · The stark climatic border in the U.S. separating the sultry east from the dry west is rapidly shifting—a change that could have a significant future impact
Apr 16, 2013 · The United States is the only great power in the history of the world that has had the luxury of having nonpredatory neighbors to its north and south, and fish to its east and west.
The United States shares land borders with Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, a territorial water border with Russia in the northwest, and two territorial water borders in the southeast between Florida and Cuba, and Florida and the Bahamas.
Apr 19, 2013 · The United States is the only great power in the history of the world that has had the luxury of having nonpredatory neighbors to its north and south, and fish to its east and west. The two oceans to either side of the country are what historian Thomas Bailey brilliantly described as its liquid assets.
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Jan 9, 2018 · The team suggests that as the aridity boundary, or the “effective 100th meridian,” moves east due to climate change, farms to the west of the shifting line will increase in size, especially in the south.
