Environmental Geography

Note: I began this post in November 2015, as world leaders (an over-used and often ill-deserved term) briefly focused on the Paris climate ...

A friend shared this thoughtful bit of poetry recently. He introduced it with the phrase "guilty as charged," and I responded l...

The beautiful coastal town of Olinda (literally, " Oh, Beautiful ") was among the earliest Portuguese settlements in Brazil and r...

In the United States, presidential politics are heating up just as temperatures are dropping and snows are falling. It has led to more than ...

In the United States, neither the people in general nor the media in particular are known for a long attention span. I have always assumed t...

In ecology -- and in systems theory generally -- we speak of feedback processes, which are responses within systems whereby outputs can affe...

From the radio program Studio 360 comes an entirely visual story that demonstrates the degree to which coffee has captured my imagination -...

Some employers seeking to avoid the provisions of the Affordable Care Act have learned an interesting lessons about their workers and their ...

For the past several years -- and especially since mid-2015 -- Acushnet has become an increasingly important part of this geographer's l...

Getty Image, via Huffington Post Illustration from a 1956 Dutch edition of Moby Dick I usually have the privilege of taking students t...