NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Thursday, levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time since measurements began in 1958. Pre-industrial carbon dioxide levels were 280 parts per million. Mauna Kea is in the background.
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, 100,000 Somalis now live in the United States, and at 32,000, Minnesota has the highest Somali population in the country. âLike many Somalis, my family and I moved to the United States to flee the war in Somalia,â Dirie recalled. Her family moved to the United States in 1994 when she was 2, settling first in Pennsylvania before heading west to Minnesota during the stateâs Somali boom.
Somalis traditionally migrated back and forth between the Somali colonial states and the Arabian Peninsulas part of trade, familial movements (intermarriage in what would be Yemen), and education. In the 20 th century there was a significant increase in migration from Somalia to the Arabian Peninsula. In the 1970s and 1980s, the number of Somalis moving to the Gulf States climbed significantly as employment opportunities opened up with the development of those oil-rich countriesâ economies.