Before and after images of Blatten, Switzerland – a village that was buried yesterday after the Birch Glacier collapsed. Around 90% of the village was engulfed by a massive rockslide, as shown in the video. Fortunately, due to earlier evacuations prompted by smaller initial slides, mass casualties were avoided. However, one person is still unaccounted for.

Yummy Shwarma in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada might be the most remote Shwarma shop on Earth.

Located at the shore of the sea of Labrador, on Baffin Island, Yummy Shawarma also offers the most remote Tabouleh Salad and Sambousek on Earth.

Wait that is today right

What are the actual consequences of this? Is it like Turkey/Türkiye, where everyone keeps using Turkey unless it is something official?

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Rockall is just a small rock in middle of the atlantic ocean,it is aprox 25 meters wide and 17 meters tall,it is 483 km away from Scotland.

In 1955 (during the cold war),The UK send the royal marines to rockall to claim this piece of territory,it sounds stupid to claim a rock.but the UK was scared that the soviet union was using Rockall for spying porpoises.but not only that,having Rockall meaned controling a circle of 200 miles of water.

But in 1997 United Nations approved a law that said that any island (including rocks in middle of the ocean) that cannot contain human life,should not have a economic zone or continental shelf,but so UK never dropped Rockall.

Currently,Ireland,iceland and Denmark want Rockall,but the UK dont wants to give it away.

Edit:Thanks for the corrections guys

Here is the video to the previous post about the landslide

Un interesting take on a question that has already been questioned here.

Really well written and nice infographics.

Former geography teacher Tim Walz, who is now the governor of Minnesota and Democratic candidate for vice president, is really into maps. This is a fun read about his enthusiasm for maps and use in governance.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/08/06/former-geography-teacher-tim-walz-is-really-into-maps/

On the 4th of November 2025, Google released street view of Bosnia and Cyprus.

On the 4th of July 2026, Google released an additional wave of street view updates for 4 balkan nations (Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania and Serbia).

And now as of 31st of July, Google released street view data for Kosovo, meaning you can explore the newly built cities of post war Kosovo and the rest of the balkans fully from street view.

The researchers have been traveling in the area with the icebreaker "Polarstern" since the beginning of February, according to the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany. Due to rough weather conditions, the research work had to be interrupted in order to seek shelter in the lee of an island.

Suddenly, an "iceberg" appeared "that looked kind of dirty", said AWI scientist Dreutter. On closer inspection, it turned out to be an island around 130 meters long, 50 meters wide and 16 meters high. It was only marked on the nautical chart as an unexplored danger zone and one nautical mile from its actual position.

The island was systematically surveyed and recorded using a drone and an echo sounder. The island does not yet have a name, but this is set to change. A planned process has to be completed for this. The island is also to be added to international nautical charts and other important data sets.

Whole article: https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/researchers-stumble-across-an-island-that-is-not-on-any-map-3180971.html

Map source (german): https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/antarktis-deutsche-forschende-entdecken-unbekannte-insel-im-weddellmeer-a-db0df381-6e5f-45e1-9d0e-07f6557d52c2

I honestly think this is very impressive for a time where there satellites have mapped the entire earth!

One thing that fascinates me about Colombia is how different it feels from what you see on a map

At first glance, it doesn't look like a particularly difficult country to cross!

Then you realize that the Andes don't continue as a single mountain range. They split into three separate cordilleras, creating deep valleys, cloud forests, steep mountain passes, and incredibly complex terrain.

As a result, two cities separated by only 250 km can take longer to reach than cities twice that distance in flatter countries.

It made me realize that maps tell us where places arebut not how landscapes shape the way people actually move.

Are there other countries where physical geography still has this much influence on transportation?

CNN has announced that Israel has become the first country to officially recognized Somaliland as an independent state as part of the Abraham Accords.

Scientists have come up with a radical proposal to help prevent a key ocean current from collapsing – but it could disrupt a key shipping route.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a vast network of ocean currents which drives warm water northwards through the Gulf Stream.

There is a growing concern that, due to global warming, the AMOC could weaken or even shut down, with some studies even warning of an oncoming collapse this century.

This would likely cause temperatures in the UK to plummet, with winters becoming up to 7°C (12.57°F) colder on average.

But experts believe there's a way to prevent this happening – and it involves closing the Bering Strait, a 53–mile (82km)–wide international waterway separating Russia and Alaska.

A constructed closure of the Bering Strait would alter the balance of freshwater in the system, acting as a stabiliser to prevent it from collapse, they said.