Environmental Geography

While watching the marvelous movie  Landfill Harmonic  (more on this in a later post), I noticed that a pivotal moment in the lives of the y...

Image: Dustin Ranem, New City Times Most coffee fiends (and mavens ) with an internet connection have seen some version of the quote abo...

Source: Margaret Crofoot et al by way of NPR Click map to enlarge My title is not exactly correct, but I could not resist. Skilled hum...

May 10, 2023 update: I am leaving the spelling of this blog post intact so that it matches the URL, but it really should be Popoca and Izta....

In the "Trials of the Free Press" episode of his podcast, journalist Sam Sanders has a meta-meta discussion about the vulnerabili...

Gamblers might win or lose on a given day, but the house wins in the long run. Covering bets over a long time horizon is essential, whether ...

When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he was only 30 pages into a writing project that intended to use the murders of Medgar Evers (19...

For many international shipments, the routes shown above are far shorter than alternatives that would pass through the Suez Canal as they...

I have visited Volante Farms in Needham, Massachusetts a couple of times; I think the first time was during one of the many explorations we...

In 2010-2011, I was writing quite a lot in on this blog about the advantages that would accrue from regionalizing some services in Massachu...