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Understand environmental change, conservation and human pressures on places.
Culture · Quizzes
Take this environmental geography quiz to test how people, resources and environmental change affect one another. Answer 24 questions, then use the explanations to think through risk, tradeoffs…
Environment · Explainers
On a hot afternoon in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression, a small pool called Gaet’ale Pond is so salty that crystals crunch underfoot. On the other side of the world,…
Israel · Environment · Map guides
A modern map of the Dead Sea shows two very different water systems: a shrinking natural lake in the north and a grid of managed industrial ponds in…
Climate · Explainers
In the 1980s, climate change sounded like a far-off problem. Today, school kids, farmers, and coastal city mayors all use the term because they see changes around them.…
Climate · Explainers
Climate change is a long-term shift in Earth’s climate system, not just a run of hot days or a bad season. The modern change matters because it is…
Countries & regions · Explainers
People ask this a lot—and get different answers. That’s because “most volcanoes” can mean (1) the most volcanoes known to have erupted in the last ~12,000 years (the…
Countries & regions · Explainers
Most of the world has snakes, from tropical forests to semi-arid hillsides. But a handful of places buck the pattern. If you’re ophidiophobic (afraid of snakes), the map…