Environmental Geography

Morning Edition's  Travis Larchuk closes the year with a geographic puzzle that started with a Nantucket Nectars bottle cap. The triviu...

Throughout 2010, followers of this blog will have noticed occasional links to Celebrating the States , a year-long blog project that was the...

WBUR journalist Robin Young's recent conversation with fellow journalist Ethan Watters examines some subtle but important aspects of glo...

Yesterday was the 145th anniversary of the electric coffee percolator, making poorly-prepared coffee widely available. Percolator-fueled Cof...

In the cold of winter in 1919, the North End of Boston experienced a deadly flood of molasses. I first heard about it when we moved to the a...

Last week was the 390th anniversary of the pilgrims arrival in Plymouth, Massachusetts. On the same day, a long-awaited announcement from Wa...

What else is there to say? SEXCoffee is a Providence-based band that recorded a promotional video at Supreme Coffee & Donuts in Seekon...

During the debate over health care -- in which corporations that benefit from the status quo  dominated the debate -- scary scenarios of ra...

Two of eight principled Republicans in the Senate Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were among the eig...

George Perkins Marsh was such an avid reader that he damaged his eyes at a young age, and for a time he was forbidden to read. With hundreds...