Current Events

Research one geography-related news story per week from the popular media

Geography-related current events can be found in the popular media (print newspapers like the Washington Post, magazines, and/or online websites such as National Geographic, Science Daily, etc).  News stories with geography-related content can include anything related to weather (hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, record snowfalls or temperature, etc), natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, etc), climate-change/global warming, pollution, demographics, border & boundary changes/disputes, mapping, species habitat, water, etc.  The one realm into which I do not want you to stray is anything related to outer space (planets, asteroids, NASA-anything).  Granted, geography encompasses and touches an enormous range of scientific and cultural areas, but this is a geography, not an astronomy course  For a story to be considered “current,” it must have been published within the past two weeks of it being used for submission.

Current Events 2

I found this news in the National Geographic published Sept 2021 about the incident that unfortunately caused great devastation in Louisiana was the landfall of Hurricane Ida that had hardly hit its coastal part last Aug 29, Sunday afternoon. It made its landfall timely on Hurricane Katrina anniversary. Hurricane Ida leaves catastrophic damage and disastrous injury specifically on the coastal areas in the south of New Orleans