Geography
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If We All Lived Like UAE Citizens, We’d Need 5.4 Earths
Tim De Chant's Per Square Mile answers through infographics: How much land would 7 billion people need to live like the people of these countries?
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170 Years of America’s Evolution In One Animated GIF
In one click, the drifting lines and changing colors take you through 170 years of history.
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Mapping Afghanistan’s Geology from Really, Really Far Away
Using aerial surveys, US geographers map the mineral resources found on Afghanistan's rocky surface
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At 107°F, Death Valley Sets Record for Hottest Daily Low
Death Valley, California set an unusual new record last week matching the hottest low temperature ever recorded on Earth
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The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World
Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world
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Ground Thaw
Geographer Christopher Burn explains why permafrost is thawing
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