geography

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Global temperatures have been rising over the past century due to humanity's emissions of greenhouse gases, but local or regional geography shapes the speed at which different places are warming.

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2026

"In the afternoon it becomes really intolerable, because this is reclaimed swamp," he said, nodding to Washington's geography.

From Barron's • Jul. 3, 2026

Race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexuality, class, disability and geography don’t line up in perfect political harmony, and each social marker tells only a fraction of the whole story.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

Then there’s its unique geography, which has often helped insulate it from security risks and external threats.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 28, 2026

But it took more than a century to make innovation—outside geography and cartography—respectable, and then it became respectable only among the mathematicians and anatomists, not among the philosophers and the theologians.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton