Environmental Geography

The sole purpose of this post is to welcome home my sweetheart  from her adventure on the prairie. Neither of us has been to North Dakota ...

About as often as high tide -- 650 times a year -- cruise ships call in Venice. As if the "Pearl of the Mediterranean" were not...

Geography enthusiast CGP Grey, famous for his video explaining what territories are and are not part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ...

US: Where is Snowden?! Russia: He is not here! As Robert Burns famously said, it is a great gift to see ourselves as others see us. At ...

On the radio this morning were the latest updates from two terrible, ongoing stories. Innocent people lost life and limb in each case, and e...

As mentioned in the recent Latin American Films post, I am trying something new in the summer version of my Geography of Latin America co...

My first visit to the Southwest was as part of an almost madcap journey from Annapolis to Ensenada, by way of Los Angeles on the way out and...

These photographs were taken in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on the Fourth of July. Hail occurs when convective thunderstorms repeatedly raise ...

Pam and I spent part of Independence Day getting as close as most U.S. citizens (or visa holders) will get to Cuba. We are both very lucky t...

Electoral politics in the United States have become quite polarized, with high-stakes primaries and private campaign financing driving wedge...