Environmental Geography

From the WBUR podcast  The Common  comes the encouraging story of Upham's Corner , a Boston neighborhood within the bigger Boston neighb...

The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) of Massachusetts is hearing a very nuanced case at the intersection (pun intended) of transit policy and ho...

I am not sure how I will conclude this post, but it is beginning as a place to gather a few items to share with my environmental geography c...

Geographers and other environmental scientists are aware of the problems associated with air conditioning, even as a growing number of us ha...

Beavers, that is! Yesterday my favorite librarian and I went with our dog to a café opening in Rutland, Massachusetts. (Read all about our f...

I endeavor to learn something new about coffee every day. *Today I got a very early start. I was grinding some excellent Honduran coffee  du...

Woodland Plantation Photo: Debbie Elliot/NPR This post is an invitation to learn about the largest uprising of enslaved persons in U.S. hist...

  Landscapes of São Vicente  My colleagues and friends from the Pedro Pires Institute for Cape Verdean Studies at my university recently ask...

The World  is a daily production of Public Radio International (PRI) whose simple name perfectly captures what it provides: an ongoing educa...

NPR's coverage of the latest effort to reduce student-loan debt got some things right: Congress and the courts are making any such reli...