Hunger stone are inscriptions on rocks in the bed of Central European rivers. One of those that surfaced in the drought of 2018, dated 1616, it read: "If you see me, weep". As per United Nations the number and duration of droughts have increased by 29% since 2000. activesustainability.com/water/elbe-sto…

As part of our module on #UrbanGovernance, our students are engaging with #UrbanOctober for this year. The first up is FutureCities_UO22 who are already highlighting future energy challenges and cities. UN-Habitat

Tonight, Professor Ian Christie is taking us back in time to the golden age of expeditionary films which saw filmmaker-explorers bringing polar exploration, mountaineering and ethnography to the masses 📽️ Starts 6.30pm. Stream online or attend in person: orlo.uk/UvAAg

—Awards Opportunities #YorkU— For details on these & other awards/funding opportunities please visit: ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/research-fello… YorkU Grad Studies @yorku_gradtps YorkU Geography Graduate Program Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies York U Research & Innovation Dept of Social Science York History YorkU Anthropology York U AMPD Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Socio-Legal Studies, Graduate Program Centre For Feminist Research @yorkustudents

A new paper by University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) researchers shows that every year when Quesnel Lake turns over, copper-rich sediment from the Mount Polley #tailings dam breach 8 years ago is re-suspended in the water column and sent down the Quesnel River: www2.unbc.ca/newsroom/unbc-…

OK, hear me out, this was actually a visionary and inspired action.

Arctic Circle Humanities bearing important contributions to understandings of Arctic imagining, bridging past and present, and relationships to nature which impacts the whole wide world, from colonisation to patriarchy. Interdisciplinary dialogue is essential.

By 2040, it is projected that the number of people exposed to damaging floods will rise from 2.2 billion to 3.6 billion, or from 28% to 41% of the global population. Roughly $78 trillion, equivalent to about 57% of the world’s current GDP, will be exposed to flooding (UNDRR2022)

***NEW POST*** The climate emergency is a housing emergency. Here, we republish an open letter from activists in Pakistani housing campaign group Karachi Bachao Tehreek to UN Sec Gen António Guterres arguing that climate justice demands housing justice decolonisegeography.com/blog/2022/10/h…

‘Housing provision and housing rights in Karachi… are key aspects of climate injustice”, argue Karachi Bachao Tehreek. Urbanisation, urban inequality and the climate emergency are intimately entangled

We previously published two articles by Daanish Mustafa 🇵🇸 دانش مُصطفیٰ on the Pakistan floods: article 1 decolonisegeography.com/blog/2022/09/d… and article 2 decolonisegeography.com/blog/2022/10/d…

#ImpactFactor is a scam. Stop using it. The Impact Factor Game: It is time to find a better way to assess the scientific literature ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

A reminder that everybody's winging it, and you're doing just fine ❤️ jeanhsu.substack.com/p/everybodys-w…

A former deputy minister of education blasts the Ontario government --- and university presidents for their silence: charlespascal.com/blog/the-deafe… #Bill28 #notwithstandingclause Charles E Pascal

Study by Nottingham Geography published in Journal of Ecology has found that woody climbing plants, known as lianas, are more likely to infest smaller trees in Southeast Asian forests, transforming knowledge in this understudied area. 📸credit: Catherine Waite Full story ▶ ow.ly/uA2M50LvIJH

Tomorrow, Shauna Brail will be talking about "Beyond #Covid19: the future of #cities and urban policy" at this event organised by the Cañada Blanch Centre at LSE. 6.00pm, British time, online and in person in the LSE, Marshall Building. All the information here: lse.ac.uk/canada-blanch/…

#ClimateChange is about consumption of the very richest 💸 people in our global society. 50% of global emissions are emitted by just 10% of the population. 90% of global emissions by 50% of the population. #COP27 needs to recognise climate justice & the rich💰must change NOW

What are the economic geographies of the Covid-19 pandemic? Julie MacLeavy, David Manley, Jamie Evans & Katie Cross (@GeogBristol) explain why some areas experienced more financial hardship than others as a result of the pandemic via new @geogdirections 👇 orlo.uk/p0JTi