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Justin Holman is the author of justinholman.com, a blog titled “Geographical Perspectives: A geographer’s thoughts on business, real estate, and education.” Holman has a PhD in Geography, specializing in Geographic Information Science, and has nearly 20 years of experience in geospatial research and software development. Since 2012, Holman has produced his own rankings of graduate Geography programs in the U.S.,...

The answer to the question of why these adorable tree huggers act the way they do has to do with keeping cool. Humans sweat and use evaporation to keep cool, many animals do something similar by panting or licking their fur, and almost all animals take advantage of the shade from trees. But koalas take things a step further. In an article in the Royal Society’s Biology Letters, a team of Australian and American researchers...

The following article, with the title above, is by Marianne Lavelle, writing for The Daily Climate, a nonprofit news service covering climate change, and a Climate Central content partner: Any Montana angler worth a double-haul cast knows that the iconic state fish, the westslope cutthroat trout, has been crowded out by the non-native rainbow trout, first introduced to these rivers by well-meaning sportsmen in the 1880s. Now those...