Africa’s southern Sahara is getting greener and the Arctic is melting. These are just two geographic changes depicted in Oxford’s latest edition of the Atlas of the World. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with Atlas editor Ben Keene in celebration of Geography Awareness Week.
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