Geography – The Conversation

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter.

Ocmulgee Mounds may soon be redesignated by Congress as America’s 64th national park. But what does this actually mean, and why does it matter?

‘Indigenization’ across departments implies the need for consultation with local Indigenous communities and a shift towards all departments and faculty recognizing we work on Indigenous lands.

To most accurately measure mountain peaks, Eric Gilbertson lugs equipment all the way to the top.

After a 20th-century manufacturing boom, the region has been in a decadeslong decline. Rural factory towns can blame technology and globalization for their woes.

Rewriting the map can influence the public psyche in ways subtle and not so subtle.

From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.

Analysis of mortality data spanning 450 regions in Europe is categorical: longevity across the continent is a two-tier affair.

A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy downpours and sudden, destructive floods.

With 100 hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living laboratories.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Blue dot signs are going up across Omaha to show support for Kamala Harris. Heavily Republican Nebraska splits its electoral votes, and Omaha cast its single vote for Dems in 2008 and 2020.

As many as 10% of enslaved people on St. Croix escaped. Where they went has remained a mystery, but scientists are using new mapping technology to find answers.

The Black Londoners Project approaches Black history geographically by supplementing narratives of 16 Black individuals with archival evidence about their lives.

A new study reveals how the geography of global climates influences the rich patterns of species diversity in an ever-changing world.

Our new study reveals a mosaic of habitable landscapes – now submerged by the ocean – once supported up to 500,000 people living in Australia’s northwest.

The cycle of opportunity and prestige for historically advantaged institutions leaves historically Black institutions on the back foot.

Gov. Tim Walz used geographic information systems as a schoolteacher. How will that experience come into play if he and Kamala Harris win the White House in November?