The History & Geography of Cities

Two good videos here:

• Why Cities Exist
• Urban Geography: Why We Live Where We Do

Population Forecasts with ArcGIS Pro

Here's nice tutorial introducing some of the time-series forecasting cools combined with space-time cubes using NetCDF data: Looking to the future: Using GIS to model and predict population. This example uses county-based population data, could be used just as well for grid-based climate model outputs or other gridded data.

Historical OSM

This is cool: OpenHistoricalMap. Let's put South America on this map!

Food & Climate Change

Lake/Ocean Effect Clouds

Mapping Power Plants and Transmission Lines

Here are two great web maps showing the locations of power pants and the transmission lines (electricity, natural gas, oil, etc.) across the USA - interesting spatial patterns!

• U.S. Power Plants, 2020
• Map: Energy, Environment, and Policy in the US (vNov2021)

The Geopgraphy of Global Warming

Read more here: How the geography of climate damage could make the politics less polarizing.