This week, we learned …
… 112 years after the great quake, San Francisco is still taking seismic risks. Read of the week!

Photograph by H.D. Chadwick, U.S. Department of War, courtesy National Archives
… how a marine biologist is sticking her neck out for geoducks and making waves at the forefront of a new Native American STEM movement.

How is National Geographic Education fostering STEM education? With all sorts of resources.
… seas may be rising too fast to save the Mississippi Delta.

Photograph courtesy USGS, NASA
What have previous Mississippi deltas looked like? Download our beautiful map to find out.
… eroding mountains could release, not trap, greenhouse gases.

Photograph by Kailing3, courtesy Wikimedia. CC-BY-SA-3.0
If mountains aren’t a carbon sink, where are they? Use our activity to find out.
… “sea nomads” may be genetically adapted to diving.

Photograph by Matthieu Paley, National Geographic
How might the Bajau lifestyle contribute to their diet? Find out with our lovely video.
… Minnesota has a runaway bog, and is seeking solutions.
What’s a bog? What’s a floating island?
… the lost language of the American logger.

Photograph by the National Park Service, courtesy National Geographic
… whatever happened to One Laptop Per Child.

Photograph by Renee Comet, National Geographic
… how the “first ethnographer of the Americas” brought his own perspective to ancient Mexico.

Illustration from theCodex Magliabechiano, courtesy Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI) and Wikimedia
What is ethnography? Use our resource to introduce students to anthropology.
… that dirt might save the Earth.

Image provided by City Compost
How can you get dirty and save the planet?
… the Kingdom of Swaziland is now the Kingdom of eSwatini.
