#usa: A bill to delist the gray wolf from the nation's endangered and threatened list passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Thursday, as Republican representatives from Minnesota and Colorado push to allow states to manage local populations. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#unitedkingdom: After a summer of heatwaves and drought followed by a mild autumn, the average annual temperature in the UK is tracking at 50.09°F (10.05°C), ahead of the previous record of 50.05°F (10.03°C) set in 2022. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#turkey #turkiye: The head of Libya's military and four of his advisors died in a plane crash in Turkey yesterday. Lt. Gen. Mohamed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad was flying back to Libya on a private jet that took off from the Turkish capital, Ankara. #Libya Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#WorldCulturesWednesday 🌬🌨Jack Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold

Welcome @youthmappers.bsky.social as an OSM US Charter Project! While YouthMappers remains an independent initiative, this partnership honors many years of collaboration to support students, educators, & young leaders using OSM to address real-world challenges. 🔗 openstreetmap.us/news/2025/12...

#topographytuesday: The mid ocean ridge systems are the largest geological features on the planet. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) was discovered in the 1950s. Its discovery led to the theory of seafloor spreading and general acceptance of Wegener's theory of continental drift.

Global temperatures are rising, and many places are experiencing more days of extreme heat than ever before. While heat waves are uncomfortable for everyone, they are especially harmful for young children, whose bodies and brains are still growing. Read more: substack.com/home/post/p-...

#finland-#russia: There were 1,950 cases of fatal wolf attacks on reindeer in Finland in 2025, 70% more than in the previous year. Hunters from border regions of Russia have gone to war and aren't maintaining the balance of the wolf population. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#japan: World's Largest Nuclear Plant Japanese authorities plan to restart the world's biggest nuclear power plant, the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata, which has sat dormant for more than a decade. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#russia: Car Bomb Kills Top General A top-level general of Russia's army was killed in a car bombing on Monday in Moscow, in what is believed to be an operation by Ukrainian intelligence. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, which occurs in the Northern Hemisphere around December 21-22. It is a symbol of family gathering and social freedom, even if only for a pocket of time, and a turning point for agricultural fortunes. How did you celebrate this year’s solstice?

#world: Using two decades of satellite data, scientists mapped how land ecosystems change through the year and found that Earth's seasons do not follow a single global schedule, with notable local variations. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#usa: The only known suspect in the December 13 shooting at Brown University and the murder of an MIT professor, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, has been found dead. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/... #gunviolence

#nigeria: The remaining 130 schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria's north-central Niger State in November have all been released, with the Nigerian government confirming that all abducted pupils are now free. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/... #africa

As part of its military efforts in renewed fighting over its border with #Cambodia, #Thailand has struck multiple casinos in Cambodia linked to international cyber scamming. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

The European Union has agreed to provide a new interest-free loan worth over $105B to help #Ukraine cover budget shortfalls over the next two years. This new loan is backed by the E.U.'s budget, not Russian assets. #EuropeanUnion #Russia Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#Israel announced a US$35 billion deal to provide natural gas to #Egypt, boosting economic ties between the two countries after years of growing tensions due to the war in #Gaza. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Sweet, spiced, and soaked in honey, #Melomakarona are #Greece’s classic #Christmas cookies, packed with #Mediterranean flavors like olive oil, citrus, and walnuts. #FoodGeoFriday 🎄🍯

#Geography #Oceanography #MarieTharp @womeningis.bsky.social @americangeo.bsky.social www.zmescience.com/other/geopic...?

Sea levels may rise 1m+ by 2100 🌊 but this obscures the real risk: tides + seasons + storm surge. Earth.org maps mild vs extreme scenarios 🗺️⚠️ #SeaLevelRise #StormSurge #CoastalFlooding #ClimateRisk #ClimateAdaptation #DataViz

A new study in the journal Nature provides insights on the role of hydrogen emissions in advancing climate change. Climate scientists believe increasing levels of atmopheric hydrogen have indirectly contributed to 0.02°C of global warming. mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

The United States is in danger of losing its official status of having eliminated measles as outbreaks advance in Arizona, South Carolina, and Utah and smaller clusters grow throughout the country. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/... #USA #measles

#USA-#Venezuela: Yesterday, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said Venezuela will continue to trade oil and ordered his navy to escort ships, one day after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a naval blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the country. mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

The power of #Geography with “ridiculous precision”. Love it. #carbon #pollution #mapping @americangeo.bsky.social gizmodo.com/americas-dir...?

#Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are engaging in a campaign to destroy evidence of mass killings in the North Darfur city of el-Fasher. The RSF killed fleeing civilians and carried out widespread killings across el-Fasher. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced an expanded travel ban that will fully bar entry for most travelers from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Syria, and the Palestinian Authority, with the changes set to take effect January 1, 2026. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

New discoveries from a 1.5 million-year-old skull of a Homo erectus uncovered in #Ethiopia are refining what #paleoanthropologists understand about the development of early humans. #paleontology #archeology Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

🎄 Las Posadas (Dec 16–24) is a nine-day celebration reenacting Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter. Through processions, songs, food, and piñatas, communities across #Mexico and Central America celebrate hospitality and togetherness. #WorldCulturesWednesday #posadas #holidays #centralamerica

Doomsday Glacier Quakes Scientists have identified more than 360 previously undetected glacial earthquakes in Antarctica, most of them occurring at the Thwaites Glacier, often called the “Doomsday Glacier”. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Deadly Flooding Kills 37 In Morocco, torrential rain on Sunday caused flash floods in Safi, about 186 miles (300 km) south of the capital, Rabat, killing at least 37 people and injuring dozens. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/... #morocco #torrentialrain #flashflood #disaster

Drones Hit Russian Submarines Two Russian submarines in Novorossiysk were reportedly hit by Ukrainian drones yesterday. The port of Novorossiysk had housed many of Russia's vital naval vessels, which have now been relocated due to the attack. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

The #Caucasus is one of the places where people first started growing grapes and making wine. Scientists found chemical traces of grape wine in pottery from sites in #Georgia that are almost 8,000 years old. Read more on Substack: americangeo.substack.com/p/the-ags-gl...

#TopographyTuesday Afar Depression is a geologic and topographic lowland in the Horn of Africa, known as one of the hottest, driest, and most tectonically active regions on Earth. It’s also one of the only places on Earth where you can physically see a continent splitting apart.

A #terrorist attack targeting a Hanukkah celebration at #Sydney's Bondi Beach yesterday evening left 15 people dead and at least 42 injured, making it one of the deadliest mass shootings in #Australia since 1996. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

As renewed fighting between the neighboring countries enters its second week, Thai air attacks are reaching deeper into Cambodian territory, with bombing near shelters for displaced people and #Cambodia's key tourist hub. #Thailand Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Scientists have found a strange rock layer beneath Bermuda that may explain why the islands sit on an unusually high patch of seafloor long after their volcanism ended. #bermuda #geology #seafloor Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#MappyMonday - Sea levels have always changed, but now people are driving the shift and facing the fallout. 🌊🏙️🌱 #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise #CoastalResilience #Adaptation #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #ClimateAction #Sustainability #UrbanPlanning #DisasterRiskReduction

#Geography #humangeography #aphg #immigration #migration @americangeo.bsky.social The Geographic Roots of Our Immigration Divide www.politico.com/news/magazin...

#Russia and #China conducted a major joint air and naval operation near #Japan earlier this week, deploying bombers, fighter jets, and the aircraft carrier Liaoning through key waterways including the Tsushima and Miyako Straits. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Catastrophic flooding is still unfolding across the U.S. Pacific Northwest and western #Canada, with widespread road closures, and large-scale evacuations expected to affect the region for days. #PacificNorthwest #Washington #flooding Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Humans mastered the art of creating #Fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk, #England. #archeology #ancienttechnology Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

#FoodGeoFriday Stollen from Germany! A centuries-old Christmas bread from Dresden, filled with fruit, nuts, spices, & marzipan. Its geography is rooted in Saxony’s location on key trade routes and protected by EU PGI status. Powdered like snowy hills, it’s one of Germany’s most famous holiday foods.

Prolific At-Risk Sperm Donor A Danish sperm donor with a rare genetic risk of cancer has been found to have fathered nearly 200 children. The donor sperm was distributed by Denmark's European Sperm Bank, one of the world's largest. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

M23 Offensive Escalates One week after a U.S.-brokered peace deal between the presidents of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, fighting has sharply escalated in eastern DRC as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker President Trump confirmed the U.S. Navy seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, escalating tensions with the Latin American country. Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Mapping the future of 🌍 #Africa with #AI✨ & satellites🛰️: smarter cities, stronger climate resilience, data sovereignty, and new opportunities for 1.4B people. #MapAfrica #GeoAI #AfricaRising #Mapoftheweek ubiqueags.org/map-of-the-w...

#geography #3D #humangeography #aphg @americangeo.bsky.social @openstreetmap.bsky.social @osmus.bsky.social #cesium www.zmescience.com/tech/map-eve...?

A separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates has seized control of an oil-rich region in southern #Yemen, raising tensions in the country's stalemated civil war. The secessionists seized most of the provinces of Hadramout and Mahra. Read More: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, did not attend the ceremony in Norway. Machado's daughter collected the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother's behalf. #venezuela #peaceprize Read more: mailchi.mp/americangeo/...

Celebrating St. Lucia Day! A Scandinavian festival of light, hope, and warmth in the darkest days of winter. 🌟✨From candle crowns to saffron buns, this beautiful tradition reminds us that even a small light can brighten the world. 💛 #WorldCulturesWednesday #StLuciaDay #FestivalOfLight