Environmental Geography

I found a recent installment of the BBC radio program HARDtalk to be uncharacteristically uplifting. In a rebroadcast of a segment that ori...

Forests have evolved with fire. Humans entered forested landscapes very late in those complicated relationships, with results that have rang...

In alternate autumn semesters, I enjoy a class we call Land Protection. When I started teaching it, I used a more cumbersome name that I inh...

The price of the benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude oil has fallen by more than half since the beginning of the year. So many ot...

Just a few weeks ago, a hiker on Mauna Loa found this bomb. More precisely, they re-found it, leading to a retelling of its remarkable story...

I thought I had learned a lot about grass from my work in landscape maintenance with which I funded the last couple years of my undergraduat...

From Estonia comes new research on the importance of biodiversity related to an ecosystem type that is found throughout southeastern Massac...

Amidst some errands Tuesday morning, I enjoyed hearing most of a conversation between WBUR journalist Meghna Chakrabarti and Norwegian auth...

Hearing this interview on my local NPR station today reminded me of The One Who Got Away ... the academic version. When I was at Univers...

The geography of climate change is complicated . With the entire state located far from the oceans and thousands of feet above sea-level, Co...

Photo: Tim Peterson, Grand Canyon Trust A week after insulting Navajo veterans of World War II -- the code talkers who helped to win the...

PLEASE CLICK MAP for a BETTER VIEW The map (above) that ESRI geographer Krista Schlyer chose for the top of her photo-map essay response...

The most important qualification for most Cabinet-level appointments in the current administration has been hostility toward the mission o...