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May 5, 2025 Nadine Levratto, _Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières_ and Mounir Amdaoud, _Université Sorbonne Paris Nord_ In France, research shows that geographic clusters

of industries that share similar knowledge bases and technologies have boosted employment in and across regions. March 26, 2025 Seth T. Kannarr, _University of Tennessee_; Derek H. Alderman,

_University of Tennessee_, and Jordan Brasher, _Macalester College_ Rewriting the map can influence the public psyche in ways subtle and not so subtle. January 25, 2025 Innisfree McKinnon,

_University of Wisconsin-Stout_ How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President

Trump is about to find out. October 22, 2024 Christina Elizabeth Dando, _University of Nebraska Omaha_ Blue dot signs are going up across Omaha to show support for Kamala Harris. Heavily

Republican Nebraska splits its electoral votes, and Omaha cast its single vote for Dems in 2008 and 2020. September 13, 2024 Mark Alan Rhodes II, _Michigan Technological University_ With 100

hours aboard Amtrak trains, students learn about sustainable travel and destination tourism, using cities along the routes as living laboratories. September 5, 2024 Marcia Moreno Báez,

_Tufts University_ and Rockford Weitz, _Tufts University_ Gov. Tim Walz used geographic information systems as a schoolteacher. How will that experience come into play if he and Kamala

Harris win the White House in November? May 9, 2024 Matthew Wynn Sivils, _Iowa State University_ Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US. April 25, 2024 Tristan

Salles, _University of Sydney_; Ian Moffat, _Flinders University_; Laurent Husson, _Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)_; Manon Lorcery, _Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)_, and Renaud

Joannes-Boyau, _Southern Cross University_ By detailing the landscape at the time of first humans’ migration into Australia, we can better understand how people travelled and where they

settled. February 26, 2024 Gijsbert Hoogendoorn, _University of Johannesburg_; Daniel Hammett, _University of Sheffield_, and Mukovhe Masutha, _University of Johannesburg_ The cycle of

opportunity and prestige for historically advantaged institutions leaves historically Black institutions on the back foot. February 11, 2024 Elizabeth Hinds-Hueglin, _Western University_;

David Mitterauer, _Western University_, and Patrick Kinghan, _Western University_ The Black Londoners Project approaches Black history geographically by supplementing narratives of 16 Black

individuals with archival evidence about their lives. January 2, 2024 Deondre Smiles, _University of Victoria_ ‘Indigenization’ across departments implies the need for consultation with

local Indigenous communities and a shift towards all departments and faculty recognizing we work on Indigenous lands. December 20, 2023 Kasih Norman, _Griffith University_; Chris Clarkson,

_The University of Queensland_; Corey J. A. Bradshaw, _Flinders University_; Frédérik Saltré, _Flinders University_, and Tristen Anne Norrie Jones, _University of Sydney_ Our new study

reveals a mosaic of habitable landscapes – now submerged by the ocean – once supported up to 500,000 people living in Australia’s northwest. December 18, 2023 Farzad Hashemi, _The University

of Texas at San Antonio_; Guangqing Chi, _Penn State_; Lisa D. Iulo, _Penn State_, and Ute Poerschke, _Penn State_ An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer

models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter. November 29, 2023 Tristan Salles, _University of Sydney_; Beatriz Hadler Boggiani,

_University of Sydney_; Laurent Husson, _Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)_, and Manon Lorcery, _Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)_ For decades, scientists have tried to uncover the cause of

long-term changes in Earth’s biodiversity. New simulations point at geography playing a critical role. November 15, 2023 Peter A. Coclanis, _University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill_ and

Louis M. Kyriakoudes, _Middle Tennessee State University_ After a 20th-century manufacturing boom, the region has been in a decadeslong decline. Rural factory towns can blame technology and

globalization for their woes. September 28, 2023 Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho, _Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)_; Catherine Graham, _Stony Brook

University (The State University of New York)_, and Dave Roberts, _Montana State University_ A new study reveals how the geography of global climates influences the rich patterns of species

diversity in an ever-changing world. August 17, 2023 Eleonore Fournier-Tombs, _United Nations University_ Models are powerful, but they have their risks, and AI is just the latest example.

The best way to address this is by ensuring that AI can be developed in a globally decentralized way. July 26, 2023 Prince Kwame Odame, _University of Education, Winneba_ and Enoch F Sam,

_University of Education, Winneba_ The city of Accra has no plan to tackle pedestrians’ behaviour. May 17, 2023 William Nash, _Middlebury_ The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is just one of

many artists from Appalachia who are probing the crisis in their work, while taking pains to ensure that it doesn’t define the region and its people. April 18, 2023 Maximilian Dröllner,

_Curtin University_; Chris Kirkland, _Curtin University_, and Milo Barham, _Curtin University_ New research on the Nullarbor Plain reveals the ancient climate change that separated

Australia’s east and west ecosystems, shaping today’s biodiversity.