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Mexico's Drug Wars - Photo Essays
Photographer Anthony Suau documents the surging influence of the drug cartels in Northern Mexico and the efforts by police to maintain law and order... The issus connected to drug trafficking are...
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Mapping Mexico's gang violence
Voters are counting on the next president to find a solution to the country's alarming rise in organised crime. This interactive features shows temporal and spatial data on drug-related deaths in...
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Shifting sands: Changing Geography of the Mexican Drug War
FIVE years ago next week, Felipe Calderón took office as Mexico’s president and launched a crackdown against organised crime. While the rates of murders are plateauing at 12,000 per year, internally...
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Border Economies: the Maquiladora Export Landscape
Maquiladoras are a well-known example of developed countries outsourcing factory work that is cited as a factor leading to de-industrialization in the Northeastern USA. While many geography classes...
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Interactive maps Mexico-USA migration channels
In several previous posts we have looked at specific migration channels connecting Mexico to the USA: From Morelos to Minnesota; case study of a migrant... An excellent way to show examples of chain...
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2014 World Cup: Will Brazil Be Ready?
ESPN Video: With the FIFA World Cup two years away, will Brazil be ready to host soccers premiere event?This short sports documentary (12 minutes) looks at some of the socioeconomic and urban planning...
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Uruguay’s government, new pot dealer on the block
Amsterdam, eat your heart out. This South American country has big plans for marijuana fans. The distribution of narcotics impacts virtually every country in the world; there are incredibly divergent...
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Brazil Faces Obstacles in Preparations for Rio Olympics
Ambitious development plans for the 2016 Summer Olympics, as well as the 2014 soccer World Cup, involve large-scale evictions from numerous slums, whose residents are refusing to leave. The urban...
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Brazil's disappearing favelas
Infrastructure demanded by the sporting world's most powerful corporate interests render families homeless in Brazil.Nick Flanagan's insight:While I'm glad that they are dong something for their poor,...
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Europe according to Estonians
This video is not very educational, filled with bad stereotypes and some truly inaccurate (and potentially offensive) statements. Still, I show it every semester as the rationale for why we need to...
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Deep Freeze Spreads Across Europe
The frigid weather that plagued Eastern Europe much of last week spread westward over the weekend, grounding flights, snarling traffic, and causing hundreds of deaths... This picture alone is a...
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Cold Snap Across Europe : Image of the Day
A convoluted jet stream plunged Europe into a severe cold snap in late January and early February 2012. See it on Scoop.it, via n flanagan geography400
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Can Europe Survive the Rise of the Rest?
The European Union will never manage to compete with China and other rising powers unless it unites politically, scales up and becomes a genuine giant.This author argues that the main driving forces...
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A Life Revealed
Seventeen years after she stared out from the cover of National Geographic, a former Afghan refugee comes face-to-face with the world once more.The original cover is one of the more famous National...
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Unnatural Landscapes
In a world where photoshop has made the unreal seem ordinary, these unearthly seemingly landscapes might seem likely fakes. The world can be that extraordinary. Pictured above is the "Door to Hell"...
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Not all Olympic champions stand on the podium
Tahmina Kohistani’s Olympics lasted exactly 14 and 42/100ths of a second. This is a great article that highlights the Olympic successes that are underreported. Due to geographic circumstances, simply...
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NYTimes video: "Skateistan"
"Afghan youth have very limited options for sports and recreation. An Australian man is trying to change that." Issues of ethnicity, class and gender are right on the surface. Globalization, cultural...
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The limits of freedom for educated girls in Malala's Pakistan
In a country this battered, fractured, dysfunctional – how much can she really hope to achieve?The issue of female education in Pakistan has exploded after Malala Yousafzai was attacked by the Taliban...
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Jodhpur - India's Blue City
DB: The aesthetics of architecture within a society not only reveal the communities interpretation of what is considered beautiful or pleasing in appearance but also differentiates between what is...
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McDonald's Goes Vegetarian — In India
McDonald's plans to open the first in a series of all-vegetarian restaurants in India next year. But rest assured, in most locations around the world, meat will stay on the menu.Many of the most...
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South Asia's smog 'getting worse'
A rapid rise in air pollution from fossil fuels and biomass burnings worsens winter smog and extends its duration in many parts of South Asia. The confluence of population growth, rapid urbanization...
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Hong Kong and China: Growing apart?
The BBC's John Simpson reports from Hong Kong, where the former colony's increasing independent-mindedness is worrying Beijing.See it on Scoop.it, via n flanagan geography400
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Alarm as China Issues "Rules" for Disputed Area
New rules announced last week to allow interceptions of ships in the South China Sea are raising concerns in the region, and in Washington, that simmering disputes with Southeast Asian countries over...
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The Cultural Geography of a Viral Sensation
The Gangnam Style! sensation is all over the internet, complete with parodies that both honor and mock the original. This first video is the original, which in a few short months received well...
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Disputed Isles
Competing territorial claims have led to maritime disputes off the coast of Asia. See a map of the islands at issue.This is an nice interactive map that allows the reader to explore current...
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Scientists observe 'tragic experiment' of tsunami debris
Jeff Larson has seen just about everything wash up on the shores of Santa Cruz: bottles, toys, shotgun shells, busted surfboards and fishing floats that looked like they had bobbed across the Pacific....
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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it's been dubbed a "tree lobster." It was thought to be extinct, but some enterprising entomologists scoured a barren hunk of rock in the middle of...
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Lurking in the Deep
Divers on Australia's Great Barrier Reef recently snapped rare pictures of a wobbegong, or carpet shark, swallowing a bamboo shark whole. The diversity of life on this planet and the ecosystems which...
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Island shown in Google Maps doesn’t actually exist
There’s a South Pacific island positioned midway between Australia and New Caledonia featured on various marine charts, world maps, and has appeared in publications since at least the year 2000. It’s...
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The Border That Stole 500 Birthdays
The story behind the the International Date Line. Not too long ago (Jan. 2012), the arbitrary International Date Line (roughly opposite the Prime Meridian) was moved to better accommodate the regional...
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