Environmental Geography

Later this month, President Bill Clinton and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will travel to Manaus, the first city I ever visited in Brazil a...

Because I posted a rather unpleasant video this morning, I decided to compensate by sharing something much more positive this evening. Thr...

This "intervention program" will be required for 90 minutes each day for all K-5 students at a charter school in Alamo, Texas. T...

China recently surpassed Japan as the second-largest economy in the world, according to total GDP. According the the CIA (i.e., the officia...

Many thanks to my friend Bryan for keeping me supplied with interesting maps -- such as the " Mean Map " I posted earlier this mo...

Thanks, as always, to my favorite librarian for sharing some interesting news about coffee. In this case, it is a coffee shop organized b...

Annual coffee consumption in the United States is close to ten trillion beans per year (1.3 million metric tons with about 3,500 beans per p...

Which came first, the coffee shop or the sweets to go with it? The tradition of exquisite chocolate treats goes centuries in Vienna, but the...

My university has had strong connections to Japan for over a century, and the connections have afforded me some interesting -- if inconsiste...

Yesterday my geography students and I had the privilege of a guest lecture by a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence who recently arrived on our c...