It’s no secret that global climate change hurts the economy. With more frequent and more severe storms, flooding, drought, and fires, countries around the world are already taking economic hits. And ...

The torrent of water that gushed over and down the Rocky Mountains late last week resulted from a fateful confluence of geography and weather. While the deluge is unprecedented in the historic record, ...

"There's no such thing as a natural disaster," geographers like to say -- a reminder that human choices turn hazards into tragedies. The Texas flash floods this weekend that left more than a hundred ...

Universities face financial crises, but cutting Geography raises concerns about short-term thinking and the long-term ...

Climate change is projected to alter the physical environment in ways that will affect human health globally, regionally and locally. The choices that society makes to respond to climate change also ...

Gandalf the Grey, played by Ian McKellen, travels J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth in the film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.” It turns out Tolkien was quite the climatologist when it came to ...

A geography professor has created a new interactive map that allows students or researchers to compare the climates of places anywhere in the world. The map draws on five decades of public ...

The Department of Geography offers many classes that apply to the ENVS major. In addition, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a valuable complement to the ENVS major. ENVS students would be well ...

"There's no such thing as a natural disaster," geographers like to say -- a reminder that human choices turn hazards into tragedies. The Texas flash floods this weekend that left more than a hundred ...

The Texas flash floods this weekend that left more than a hundred dead, including many children, offer a stark illustration. Here is a look at the intertwined forces that amplified this storm's impact ...