Environmental Geography

The U.S. Constitution neither defines nor precludes presidential executive orders , but every president since George Washington has issued a...

My favorite librarian habitually checks the National Day calendar, looking for things that might be fun to celebrate, and this often insp...

Atlas Obscura is always a trove of geographic insight; the geographically curious can spend hours perusing the online or print version. ...

I did my entire master's thesis on dams, so I feel emboldened to make more than the usual number of dam-related puns whenever the topic ...

A couple of days after the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a surprising ruling on a complicated case involving ...

Nitrous oxide pollution in Wuhan, 2019 (top) and 2020 (bottom). Chinese New Year is responsible for the temporary decline shown on the to...

My GEOG 431 course -- Environmental Regulations -- will be a bit complicated when I teach it in the fall 2020, but I'm determined to do ...

Photo: Geoffrey Scott Baker , resident of nearby Oella who calls Ellicott City his muse I remember this riddle from middle school days -...

I found this image while browsing for something to represent the idea of environmental regulations from the point of view of what the regs...

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...

It is sad -- an inexplicable, really -- that the fisherfolk of Louisiana were counting on the current administration to protect fisheries f...

Bald eagle , Haliaeetus leucocephalus , on Alsek River Rebounded from DDT, but now threatened by the Department of Interior itself Asid...