Editor's note: As teens scroll through their news feeds, catching glimpses of conflict and atrocities taking place in Syria, South Sudan, or even violence here in America, what are they learning about ...

To prepare our young people, we owe them a high-quality geography education. When you hold a pencil, you hold the world in your hands. Its raw ingredients make a far-reaching journey around the globe, ...

“Native people are still here regardless of what the settler colonial state might try and say. You can uplift and amplify that ongoing relationship with the land here and now.” Climate change is a ...

I am an atmospheric scientist with three degrees in meteorology. However my tenured home at the University of Georgia is the Department of Geography. Like many of you reading this, I had a rather ...

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, ...

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 ...

A wave of bestselling authors claim that global affairs are still ultimately governed by the immutable facts of geography – mountains, oceans, rivers, resources. But the world has changed more than ...

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence offers a chance for overdue conversations about what schools should teach when it comes to history, government, and social studies. Today, ...

Are you considering a career in the sciences? Are you interested in exploring the relationship between humans and the environment? Do you enjoy solving complex problems? The bachelor’s degree in ...

Lucretius may as well have said of geography, as he did of nature, that if you throw it out the door it will just come flying back in through the window. Recent events only confirm that insight: as ...

This science of place, connection, and change enables you to make a difference. With a career in urban design, public health, migration studies, geospatial analytics, environmental stewardship, arctic ...