Environmental Geography

When I began this post last week, I had just learned that one of my favorite writers is about to turn 95. I learned this because I was answe...

"Don't read the comments," they say. And yet, I do. And this week along the South Coast from Rhode Island to Cape Cod, the com...

This post is an echo of my May 2025 post Africa Book Club . I am creating it for much the same reason, as a resource for an upper-level geog...

I misspelled the title of this post on purpose. It is how Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey pronounced this exact phrase when exclaiming to Mar...

  If you have taken a class with me that involves the United States in any way, you have seen me point out the 100th degree west longitude o...

Have you been to a place if you have only visited its airport? Absolutely!  Find the FLN airport on the map below for the story of this phot...

  Bill McKibben has borrowed this song as the title of his latest (that is, 20th) book, whose subtitle is A Last Chance for the Climate and ...

(Thanks to my CyberNavigator son Harvey for helping me to fix the colors on this post.) Not only is it El Día de los Muertos , but it is als...

As a certain kind of geographer, I probably spend more time thinking about trains than actually riding them, though I am grateful every time...

Sustainable tourism was a central theme of the 103rd Annual Meeting of NESTVAL , hosted this weekend by the Department of Geography at Brid...