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22 Sep

Map of the Week: Most Popular Migrant Destinations By Country

By Conor White This week’s Map of the Week was created using data from the United Nations report International Migrant Stock. The Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations looks at the most popular destination for each...
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17 Sep

Map of the Week: Climate and a Changing U.S.

By Nicole Oveisi New developments from the Rhodium Group with analysts from ProPublica and The New York Times show insights into the effects of climate change on the United States landscape. With temperatures warming and changing rainfall patterns, temperate climates...
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15 Sep

Geographical Review Preview: The Lower Ucayali River in Prehistory: Cultural Chronology, Archeological Evidence and a Recently Discovered Pre-Columbian site

By: Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid, Yoshito Takasaki and Santiago Rivas Panduro What is the main purpose of your study? The main purpose of the study was to describe a new archeological site discovered recently along the Ucayali river, a...
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9 Sep

Map of the Week: Sounds of the Forest

By Arden Benner This week’s Map of the Week comes from Wild Rumpus a UK-based production company specializing in outdoor artisanal events that focus on “helping people connect to and be inspired by nature.” Every July, in collaboration with The...
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8 Sep

Geographical Review Preview: Indigeneity, Displacement, and Regional Place Attachment Among IDPs from Crimea

By: Austin Charron What is the main purpose of your study? The purpose of this study is to show how indigenous identities and experiences of colonization impact place attachment, using as a case study internally displaced peoples (IDPs) from Crimea...
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3 Sep

Map of the Week: Nine Weeks to Polling

by Conor White Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com The 2020 United States presidential election is only nine weeks away. It is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and will be the 59th quadrennial...
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1 Sep

Geographical Review Preview: Cognitive Mapping as a Method to Assess Peoples’ Attachment to Place

By: Jeffrey Smith and Ricardo Aranha What is the main purpose of your study? The purpose of this article is to showcase how peoples’ mental maps (perceptions) of a place can be used as a tool to reveal their emotional...
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27 Aug

Map of the Week: Remembering Hurricane Katrina

By Nicole Oveisi As New Orleans prepares to remember Hurricane Katrina on the 15 year anniversary this Saturday August 29th, and coastal cities in Louisiana and Texas assess the damage of Hurricane Laura, it’s important to understand the lasting effects...
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25 Aug

Geographical Review Preview: A Human-Environment Timeline

By: Thomas B. Larsen and John Harrington, Jr. What is the main purpose of your study? This paper begins scholarly conversation to develop and formalize a human-environment timeline. Numerous scholars agree that an “Age of Humans,” or Anthropocene, exists. They...
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19 Aug

Map of the Week: 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

By Arden Benner In celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 19th amendment, this week we’re bringing you “Women’s Suffrage and the Ratification of the 19th Amendment” a story map created by the National Park Service that zig-zags across...
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