Bhutan's Population Crisis
Send us Fan Mail Bhutan, a small Himalayan country between India and China, is trying to encourage families to have more children. The government has announced monthly cash payments for families with ...
3 Elo 23min
Landscapes Built From Below
Send us Fan Mail External weathering and erosion processes gradually become the dominant factors in the development of the landscape as tectonic activity ceases or becomes very slow. The influence of ...
27 Heinä 18min
Banda's Burning Crisis
Send us Fan Mail In May 2026, the district of Banda in northern India experienced temperatures of 47–48°C, making it one of the hottest places in the country. At these temperatures, daily life changes...
20 Heinä 20min
China's Road to the Top
Send us Fan Mail In 2000, almost every one of the world’s ten biggest carmakers came from Japan, Europe or North America. By 2025, China had become the world’s largest car market, the world’s largest...
18 Heinä 17min
Why Hurricanes Went Quiet
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been half-listening to the news this summer, you might have noticed something odd: hurricane season is underway, but the Atlantic has been almost silent. For anyone studying...
17 Heinä 18min
Mountains Are Breaking Down
Send us Fan Mail Climate change, landslides, and the science of predicting disasters Imagine standing beside a beautiful glacier lake in Alaska. Tour boats move across the water. Mountains rise high a...
13 Heinä 17min
A Deep Earthquake Beneath Italy
Send us Fan Mail Just after midnight on 2 June 2026, a magnitude 6.26.2 earthquake struck deep beneath the sea off southern Italy. Although this sounds serious—and it is—the effects at the surface wer...
6 Heinä 22min
Why Your Electricity Bill Lies
Send us Fan Mail If Germany is such a leader in renewable energy, why are electricity bills still so high there? And why do France and Spain often have cheaper power? That’s the big geography question...
29 Kesä 18min
