Tourism can be defined as an activity that consists of traveling, with the objective of knowing different geographical places. Since ancient times, there were travelers who traveled to other places either for commercial, adventurous, spiritual reasons or to conquer new territories. But the tourism sector as we know it today, emerged from the industrial revolution, when…
In the summer of 2020 there were about 300 fires and more than 300,000 hectares burned in southern Siberia, a large region where these fires should not be frequent due to its sub-arctic (also called subpolar) climate. However, in these almost icy latitudes, global warming has been causing a progressive thawing of permafrost (frozen soil),…
Although there have been many pandemics throughout history, with globalization it may be this, the COVID-19, the one that has spread the fastest and the one that has reached practically every corner of the planet. Although it is true that for many generations, a coronavirus of these characteristics takes us by surprise and we…
Geography is a very old territorial and social science that has always been academically associated with the History and the description of the Earth, with the sole purpose of divulgation and teaching. Until today, and in a very simplified way, it can be summarized that geographers during their university studies touch many topics above, but…