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Planet Earth in your hands – thats geography!

Geography is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments. Geographers explore both the physical properties of Earth’s surface and the human societies spread across it. They also examine how human culture interacts with the natural environment and the way locations and places can have an impact on people. Geography seeks to understand where things are found, why they are there, and how they develop and change over time.  ( so...

Moving a city to save it!

The Radical Plan to Save the Fastest Sinking City in the World Many of our coastal cities are imperiled, but none have plotted an escape quite as audacious as Jakarta’s I. The capital of catastrophe In the 17th and 18th centuries, European workers flocked by the thousands to a faraway colonial Dutch port later to be known as Jakarta. The lure of the tough, six-month ocean journey was easy enough to see: seemingly limitless island forests of clove and nutmeg, spices...