Geography
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‘We must tell the story of the Earth’
Through a series of maps that he presented during his talk at Clark, Esri Story Maps founder Allen Carroll told his personal and professional story.
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Connecting sunlight and forests to curbing climate change
The climate benefits of some carbon projects may be overestimated because they don’t account for changes in albedo — the percentage of sunlight that a forest reflects or absorbs, making it cooler or hotter — in their calculations, according to Geography Professor Christopher Williams and his peers.
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Clark alum Margaret Wickens Pearce named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
Prestigious award celebrates Pearce’s cartography recognizing Indigenous legacies
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Protecting Amazon’s Indigenous lands can improve human health, study finds
Indigenous Territories in the Amazon rainforest can help buffer and protect humans from diseases, according to a recent study.
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‘I wanted to be in the communities’
From global to grassroots, Solange Biandaky-Badji, Ph.D. ’08, is a leader
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Economic Geography journal at 100
The global field of economic geography marks a significant milestone this year: the 100th anniversary Economic Geography, a Clark-owned, internationally recognized scholarly journal.
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Polar research blooms inside the hot spots
Ella Christie ’27 joined Geography Professor Karen Frey’s Polar Science Research Laboratory team in the Northern Bering Strait and the Southern Chukchi Sea to conduct studies of the water, part of a multidisciplinary Arctic ocean-sampling program.
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‘We stepped out of our comfort zone’
HERO students find common ground in researching outcomes of urban tree-planting program
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As capitalism transforms, how might the world respond?
If ever there were a time for economic geographers to share their expertise with the world, that time might be now, according to the editors of a recently published book who have ties to Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography.
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‘We have the tools in our hands to create a more sustainable civilization’
We may think we face a bleak future under climate change, but there is still time to take effective action if we reconsider our economic and social approaches and develop alternative solutions, according to a panel of scholars.