A global, building-level database of 606 million structures reveals that 835 Gt of materials are in use and that there are large inequalities in the distribution between high-income and low-income ...

Trade blockages in the Persian Gulf have reminded the world that there are forces as great as or greater than technology and ...

Being able to form mental maps is key to understanding spatial connections as well as global economic and political context, experts say.

"Geography, meaning living in unincorporated communities, harms health," she said. "Geography and the politics of place determines who can and cannot cross borders." Study participants discussed the ...

A student once told me, halfway through the term, “I thought this class would be about memorizing countries. But now I can’t stop seeing systems.” He said it during a discussion about climate ...

Physical geography integrates and inter-relates landforms, water, soils, climate, and vegetation as the major natural elements of the environment. The focus of physical geography is on the zone of the ...

Geography is the study of people and place. It is a wide-ranging discipline. Geographers are interested in how natural processes, people and systems are affected by the specifics of a place—location ...

Baber gathering fossils at Mazon Creek, Illinois, 1895, during the first field class at the University of Chicago to which women were admitted. Photo from University of Chicago Photographic Archive, ...