Geography in the news

M7 earthquake westcoast Canada

earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The geology behind the Santorini earthquake swarms earlier this year

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years Ash clouds from Hayli Gubbi volcano sent drifting across the Red Sea toward Yemen and Oman

Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Headline hyperbole: a lesson from a glacier Most often physical geography only becomes breaking news when it is part of, or the underlying cause of, an event or disaster.  And in today’s world, the news can spread almost instantaneously…

From the GA Physical Geography Special Interest Group ⤵️

Why the Geography behind the news in the classroom is so important

teachingphysicalgeog.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/h...

Map of a lake with narrow parallel isles in a fan-shape, surrounded by green land. Altitude markers show that most of the land is lower than the water level.

Map showing the strange phenomenon that in the Netherlands the water is often higher than the land.

#30daymapchallenge day 20: water #cartography #maps #netherlands #utrecht #water

The port of Rotterdam needs expansion, the village of Moerdijk will disappear in 10 years.

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/moer...

Small Earthquake in the northern part of the Netherlands

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/gron...

On 13 november 1985 the volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted. Not a heavy eruption but ice and snow on the mountain top melted by the lava and this combination caused a catastrophic Lahar

news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi...