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Land of Ice and Fire; and Dust
By Paulette Cully Iceland is at present living up to its epithet of a land of ice and fire since the most recent volcanic eruption took place on 20th March 2010. Quiet for the last 120 years,...
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Ash, health and uncertainty
Eyjafjallajöekul, taken by NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite, 1st April 2010 I-Hsien Porter As ash from the Eyjafjallajöekull eruption in Iceland drifted across Europe earlier this month, the...
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Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico: A disaster for the local society and ecosystems?
By Lee-Sim Lim When Iceland and European countries are facing the uncertainties from the eruption of Eyjafjallajöekull, the US is desperately finding solutions to the unexpected oil spill. The...
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Lessons from the past
By Paulette Cully In an upcoming article in the Geographical Journal Chester and Chester examine the ‘Impact of eighteenth century earthquakes on the Algarve region, southern Portugal’. Using data...
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Recent Catastrophic Flooding
By Andy Hacket Pain This morning I typed “flooding” into Google News and, limiting the results to the last week, found that you get almost 20,000 hits. By scrolling through the first few pages of...
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Undergraduate Fieldtrips
Student Interviewing Gun Shop Owner In 2006 By Alexander Leo Phillips By the time of publication I will be nearing the end of assisting upon a human geography undergraduate field trip. Not a great...
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Climate change: do we have a clue?
by Lisa Mol ScienceDaily reported a few days ago that Americans are apparently rather clueless when it comes to climate change. Only 57 percent know what the greenhouse effect is, only 45 percent of...
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Climate change, politics and corporations; a case of cross-contamination
by Lisa Mol So once again I am on the climate change high horse, but this time spurred on by a rather interesting news article so please indulge me while I put together the latest developments for you....
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Mapping things
by Lisa Mol This week has seen a flurry of map-related advances. The BBC reported today that Facebook intern Paul Butler has managed to map a substantial part of social connections through the...
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A Sense of Time
by Caitlin Douglas Remotely sensed imagery – it’s everywhere – it’s in the news, researchers use it, and politicians refer to it. In a recent Geography Compass article, Southworth and Gibbes review the...
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Remotely Piloted Vehicles in Ecological Research?
by Caitlin Douglas, Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPVs) are fixed or rotary winged aircraft operated without a pilot on board. There are three main types of RPVs: small-scale, tactical, and endurance RPVs...
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Spaces above 8,000 metres: quantitative and qualitative assessments of Mount...
by Fiona Ferbrache Mount Everest is the world’s tallest peak, but there is some disagreement about how tall it actually is. The first published height, measured by the Great Trigonometric Survey in...
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People, Paper, and Computers: Population GIS
GIS topographical elevation model. GIS also holds exciting opportunities for visualising population. (c) Wikimedia Commons. Benjamin Sacks Advanced geographic study and analysis increasingly requires...
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Geography Compass Content Alert: Volume 5, Issue 12 (December 2011)
The latest issue of Geography Compass is available on Wiley Online Library. Click past the break to view the full table of contents. Cultural Geography, Memory and Non-Representational Geographies...
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(Re)Introducing the Falklands: The March 1983 ‘Geographical Journal’
Satellite image of the Falkland Islands. © 2012 Wikimedia Commons. Benjamin Sacks The upcoming thirtieth anniversary of the short, but brutal Falklands War has catalysed renewed tension between the...
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Crossing the Gender Divide
Eileen Healey filming in the Alps, 1950s. Courtesy The Daily Telegraph. Benjamin Sacks This month, as the Royal Geographical Society marks the centenary of Robert Scott’s tragic expedition to the South...
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Ice, Oil, and the New Geopolitics of the Arctic
By Martin Mahony A US submarine surfaces through the ice near the North Pole Scientists monitoring the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean recently announced that a new record low had been...
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Who’s Behind our Maps?
Jen Dickie The headlines this week demonstrate how ubiquitous maps have become; yesterday alone there were at least 5 maps being used by The Guardian and the BBC to illustrate information to their...
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Skiing and snow: a novel proxy for better science communication
By Daniel Schillereff The first snowfall on the peaks of Snowdonia could be observed from my University building today, I have received the first ‘snow dump alerts’ for a number of alpine ski resorts...
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“Geography is a Great Adventure”
By Catherine Waite “Geography is a great adventure” is the widely quoted opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)’s out-going President, Michael Palin. The discipline has long been...
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Antarctica: Frozen Diplomacy
By Benjamin Sacks On 18 December 2012, William Hague, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, announced that the southern portion of the British Antarctic Territory, spanning from...
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Seeing glacial change: optical consistency through the camera and the archive
Martin Mahony The Gangotri glacier in India, source of the Ganges river. Source: Wikimedia Commons Towards the end of last year I visited an exhibition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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Adapting to coastal change: understanding different points of view in coastal...
by Mark Tebboth The devastating flooding in central Europe is a powerful example of the destruction that extreme weather can cause. Yet, finding agreement on the best way to protect citizens,...
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A British Arctic Policy for the Twenty-first Century
by Benjamin Sacks HMS Alert’s 1875-76 expedition to the Arctic. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Britain retains significant interests in the Arctic Ocean, according to a recently published commentary in...
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Can new remote sensing technologies improve diplomacy in shared river...
By Joseph J. Bailey, University of Nottingham, UK. Rivers are the arteries of the world, carrying life-giving water to the organs that are the natural habitats and human settlements. An increase or...
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