The number of content descriptions of what teachers should teach and what students should learn has been cut by 21%. In primary school geography, 50% of these descriptions have gone or been reduced.
Satellite image of the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar, a major rice growing area.
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Vamsi Ganti, University of California, Santa Barbara
Millions of people around the world live on river deltas and are vulnerable when those rivers shift direction. A new study shows why and where these events, called avulsions, happen.
Maps contain useful information, but that means leaving out other information that is also useful.
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Everest didn’t become the highest mountain overnight. This process was excruciatingly slow; a result of complex interactions between the solid earth, the atmosphere and the biosphere.
The pandemic has spurred many workers to contemplate their futures – and whether they ever want to return to office life.
Edward Hopper, 'Morning Sun' (1952) via hermien_amsterdam/flickr
The pandemic exposed the contradictions and tensions at the heart of ‘creative class’ cities and jobs.
An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans.
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Antarctic research has historically been a bastion of men from Europe and North America. Only now is the field opening up to women and people of colour. And there’s a way to go yet.
The United States has 955 streets named after Martin Luther King Jr..
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US cities began naming streets in Black neighborhoods for Martin Luther King Jr. after his 1968 assassination. Researchers studying these areas 50 years later found entrenched deprivation.
Several theories have suggested either humans, climate change or both drove megafauna extinctions in Southeast Asia. Our newest work suggests otherwise.
Riyad Mahrez is one of several French born footballers currently playing for African countries.
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In football, a number of African teams draw heavily on their European-born diasporas, a reflection of a colonial past and deeply entrenched migration routes.
Women spend considerable time finding water for their homes.
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Eric Denis, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Olivier Telle, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Samuel Benkimoun, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Preliminary results of new research show how using data from social networks such as Facebook may help us understand how the coronavirus spread on local and regional levels.
Progress has been slow in Ghana in expanding access to water.
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What can we do as individuals to help save the planet? Acting locally is satisfying because we can see the results, but a geographer argues that large-scale solutions often make the most difference.
While most Fijian settlement is coastal, new research into mountain settlements can teach us about this country pre-colonisation. Pictured is the Seseleka hill fort, 420 metres above sea level.
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Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lucas Stephens, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, and Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Hundreds of archaeologists provided on-the-ground data from across the globe, providing a new view of the long and varied history of people transforming Earth’s environment.
Injuries from firearms are a leading cause of death for American children and teens.
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Firearms are the second leading cause of death among US children and adolescents.
A wall graffiti depicting Indian National Congress (INC) party leader Rahul Gandhi (L) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a tug of war over India, Mumbai on April 28, 2019.
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A spatial analysis of India’s election results shows a unique geographical footprint of the BJP vote and how its recent progression follows obvious geographic patterns.
A map showing Northern Canada and the Arctic Ocean.
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