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Readers looking for a way to get young learners more involved with the world around them, especially educators, teachers, and administrators in primary education, will find National Geographic Kids: Geography Primary Resources to be a great foundation starter for early learning in the fields of geography and climate. Visitors can find resources in several ways. There is a search bar to query...

Geography is sometimes regarded as a dry topic, but really it can be a fascinating subject with connections to a broad range of disciplines, from sociology and political science to economics and ecology. Educators and learners looking for fast-paced and engrossing primers on the topic will love Geography Now, a long-running Youtube channel that produces informative videos for every country on...

Readers who have ever wanted to put their knowledge of the world to the test will enjoy GeoGuessr, the game that drops users somewhere in the world using Google's Street View feature and leaves it up to them to guess the location. In the game, users must navigate the map and take in as much information as possible, utilizing their knowledge of geography, history, botany, languages, architecture,...

The recent fire at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro and the ravaging of monuments in Palmyra by the so-called Islamic State remind us that features of humanity's shared cultural heritage can be erased in an instant. An effort to digitally preserve what remains, Open Heritage is an open-access collection that allows users to take 3D tours of iconic locations from around the world. The effort...

CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a collaborative endeavor between research libraries and leading academic publishers that provides what's known as a "dark archive" to help sustain access to web-based scholarly content. A dark archive is a repository that doesn't grant public access but preserves the information contained as needed. As such, the material is only available if a trigger event occurs,...