Geography June 2010 Archive

A British peer-reviewed study, found that Daylight Saving Time may actually save energy. Due to the study, the climate-change organization 10:10 has worked to introduce a bill in the ... Read More

Alex was the first named storm and now is the first named hurricane of the Atlantic 2010 hurricane season as Hurricane Alex. Hurricane Alex is projected to strike northern ... Read More

Young Indian women are turning to the morning-after emergency contraceptive pill, available without restrictions at Indian pharmacies, as contraception. According to reports, the wide availability of the over-the-counter morning-after ... Read More

Since 1990, 33 new countries have been created. The dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia in the early 1990s caused the creation of most of the newly independent states. Since ... Read More

A recent study by Brandeis University has determined that the difference in attained wealth between whites and African-Americans in the United States is at an all-time extreme. According to ... Read More

Here's a collection of new and interesting articles here on the site: Gog and Magog Ten Facts About Florida Ten Facts About Arkansas Geography of Kyrgyzstan

I was having so much fun writing this brand-new India Geography Quiz that I wrote twenty multiple-choice questions! Test your knowledge of India with this latest quiz. If ... Read More

The community of expatriates (or expats) is a fascinating one. Author Marc Rush, who spent five years teaching English in Chinese universities writes about this eclectic group of Americans ... Read More

The 19th World Cup, which begins tomorrow (June 11) in South Africa, is the first World Cup to be held on the African continent. The month-long tournament will bring ... Read More

This is not to be missed! This Google Maps overlay is a, "world map color-coded by level of touristiness, based on analysis of photos on Panoramio" (Google's version of ... Read More

Take this brand-new, multiple-choice, fifteen-question Africa Geography Quiz to test your knowledge of the geography of the African continent. Good luck!

The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof writes a fascinating opinion piece on a "politically incorrect, heartbreaking, frustrating and ubiquitous" truth of global poverty, "It's that if the poorest families spent ... Read More