Environmental Geography

As many of you know, Nicaragua is near and dear to my heart. In January 2006, I intended to take students there just once. One of those stud...

Scholars Jacob Bradt and Carolyn Kousky recently  analyzed the most recent data on flood insurance claims in the United States in studies ...

Shopkeeper Amaleea Hayu supports the rail link in Malaysia, which of course will have benefits along with its costs. One reason I teach ...

I was pleased to be part of an online discussion of coffee quality recently -- specifically about the connections between cupping quality an...

Earlier this month, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch surprised many observers by writing a 5-4 decision in favor of indigenous rights. I h...

Social-distancing protocols in some parts of Latin America have been gendered, because this seemed to be an easy way to reduce potential ...

I had already begun to read Augutine Sedgewick's hefty tome  Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug...

Atlas Obscura is always a trove of geographic insight; the geographically curious can spend hours perusing the online or print version. ...

I did my entire master's thesis on dams, so I feel emboldened to make more than the usual number of dam-related puns whenever the topic ...

The Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco has long been home for many transgender people. Even in the context of a city with a strong rep...