I know only elites and soliders were Germanic but still

I live in Southeast Asia

Following the recent devastating floods in Nepal, this clip gives a powerful perspective on rapid destabilisation of the Himalayan region.

Research led by the University of Leeds found that the ice loss rate in recent decades is at least ten times higher than the average rate observed over previous centuries. Also, glaciers lost twice as much ice annually between 2000 and 2016 compared to the previous 25 years.

So what could be the long-term hydrological and geographical changes we should expect to see across Asia as this acceleration continues, and are there realistic infrastructure solutions to mitigate the resulting Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)?

Algeria had a brutal civil war in the 90s, is still fighting a war on the Polisario front in Western Sahara, and greatly suffered from French Colonization. The country is rich in oil, but so are Gabon and Angola but neither of those countries are nearly as developed.

With an HDI of 0.763, Algeria has the highest HDI on the mainland African continent and is even more developed than its less isolated peers like Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt.

Basically perpetual wind, fog, rain, volcanism and muskeg (subarctic marshland with giant mosquitoes) prevent it from any substantial population or connecting road system despite having the mildest winters in Alaska in terms of absolute temperatures

Volunteer effort run by NAXA & Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
You can help map out the flooded area, task: https://tasks.hotosm.org/explore?campaign=2026+Nepal+Floods&omitMapResults=1

I graduated in 2023 with a BA in geography (with an emphasis on environmental studies) and I love that I have it. Like in genuinely happy I studied something I wanted to and had a fun university experience.

And since I have become a museum worker, city employee substitute teacher and most recently a private adult ESL instructor.

I’m actually studying for my masters in linguistics right now and focusing on second language acquisition.

But I owe it all to being 19 and thinking “I really like learning about countries” and doing that for 4 years. It’s actually set me apart from other applications (especially when I was a museum archivist) because the obscurity of the degree allows you to just mention what relevant experience and courses you took (within the geographic discipline) to best fit the job you’re apply for. Like for the company I used to teach English for I’d lay into the human geography classes I took and when working with my local city I’d lay into my water table studies and urban design courses, and for the museum I work at I’d also just lay into the anthropology courses I took and also human geography and physical geography.

(Also I used it to become a substitute teacher and I sub a lot of history and English classes. But to get a substitute teachers permit in my state, CA (USA) you just need a bachelors in literally anything so I don’t think it being in geography was a huge factor in that regard)

Abuse the metaphysical shit out of the “and other relevant degree” options when applying for jobs

Pazyryk carpet surviving this well is one of those unusual accidents of geography. burial was in Altai Mountains, where permafrost could keep the chamber frozen.

After grave robbers opened chamber, water entered through the shaft and later froze, which may be what preserved the wool, pile, and dyes for more than 2,000 years.

and i think this is really useful part for historians is what this carpet can tell us beyond its age. Its materials and dye composition give clues about where raw materials may have come from and how far they could travel. Some studies have linked the red dye to cochineal, which may suggest connections with wider trade networks across Central Asia. It doesn't prove direct route to Europe, but it gives us another piece of evidence for how connected these regions may have been before the Silk Road became the better-known trade network.

And they have no settlements. Is it deforestation only?

There’s a lot about this map of geothermal energy potential that strikes me as odd. The high-potential areas being largely in the West makes sense, since that’s where the tectonic activity is the most active, but there are also big dead-zones in areas that I would think to be good.

But it’s the hot-zones that are far away from any plate-boundary that I’m most curious about, especially the big one that covers a lot of East Texas, North Louisiana, and South Arkansas. Why is it there?

It’s hard to tell, but it looks like Hot Springs, Arkansas isn’t even in the area with the highest potential.

So what accounts for the high degree of variability in the temperature at the bottoms of deep holes?

I know that upper Michigan has pretty clear water but where else? I’m particularly interested in an answer for Lake Erie and Ontario.

I found these crescent-shaped shapes on Google Earth in eastern Tamil Nadu, India, east of Karaikudi and north of Rama Setu. To my eye, they initially looked like barchan dunes, but they're lakes! I've never seen lakes like these before.

At work, a colleague showed me these islands in Peru where her daughter visited for the day and apparently they float on Lake Titicaca. People even live on those islands but I’m curious what makes them to float?

My colleague had no idea.

I was wondering,is the current climatic stress in the north in any way related to desertification? Precisely,is the Sahara always going to remain under the Atlas mountains and the Mediterranean or is it expected to shift its way up north? And also are the climatic shifts in the Mediterranean (hot weather in France and Spain and Italy and drying rivers in Austria and Hungary and Croatia and whatnot) related to desertification in anyway?

What would Washington DCs current population be if it had retained its original 10 mi x 10 mi layout?

It has Burma instead of Myanmar, ussr instead of Russia, Spanish Sahara, Tanganyika, Yugoslavia, and French west Africa. (If you want to see a picture of more of the globe just ask)

I was researching this area because I found out one of my ancestors migrated from Tunis to Sicily. This abundance of vegetation didn’t really surprise me because it’s right on the border of the Mediterranean. I wouldn’t expect a drastic decrease in temperature but 🤷‍♂️.

Edit: Thanks to some helpful commenters I realized that this is not the Sahara. Misconception on my part.