Geography Ninja

The Ninja explores water insecurity in England following comments by the CEO of the Environment Agency, suggesting that much of the country could face water shortages by 2050.

The Ninja explores reasons for the USA’s ongoing status as the world’s superpower. Includes references to well-known soft drinks.

In this podcast, Ninja investigates the global geography of murder. Where is the most murder-prone place in the world? Who is affected most? Which places are relatively homicide-free? Should you take a vacation in Los Cabos?

In this episode, The Ninja considers the concept of fertility rates around the world. The focus moves from countries aiming to increase births to new, global concerns over population levels and the growth of environmentalism leading to calls for fewer or even no births.

The Ninja asks what the whole ‘is Greenland for sale’ issue is all about. Is this the real life or this just fantasy? What is Greenland? Who owns it? Are countries bought and sold? Why would Donald Trump want to buy an island of 56,000 people in the Arctic? So many questions, so little time.

The Ninja focuses on the recent drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities and the wider issues of how oil is affected by physical geography as well as geopolitics.

The Ninja checks out the phenomenon of the Global Climate Strikes and asks whether these actions are a tipping point for change in how we address climate change.

The Ninja explores links between melting glaciers in Iceland and increasing levels of volcanic activity.

The Ninja investigates Hurricane Dorian’s impact on The Bahamas. Ninja also explores what causes these tropical storms and whether the future may hold more of them.

Ninja reviews The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene by Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin. The book was published by Pelican in 2018 and explores the concept of the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch, amongst all the controversy that entails (it appears that geologists can get quite riled about such things). Ultimately it shows how humans have become so dominant on Earth we are now leaving a geological record and have altered the course of evolution.