Listen to Drs. Lindsay Naylor and Paul Jackson discuss “Where & Why: Human Geography” on WVUD’s Campus Voices.
Heat waves are America’s deadliest weather disaster.
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Heat waves are quickly becoming one of the world’s deadliest weather phenomena. In the United States, extreme heat now kills more people each year than tornadoes, hurricanes, or flooding. And a massive heat wave, like the one that hit Europe in 2003, can kill tens of thousands in a blow.
24 hours in the life of an opioid epidemic
As seen by medical students at Temple’s Episcopal Campus
By Michael Vitez
An estimated 50,000 to 75,000 Philadelphians struggle with opioid use disorder and each day thousands come to one neighborhood, Kensington, to buy their drugs. Hundreds live there as homeless.
Art project on Pain and Addiction in Philly
Kensington Blues by Jeffrey Stockbridge
10% of all sales go directly to Prevention Point Philadelphia
Kensington Blues is a fine-art photography book documenting the those affected by drug addiction and prostitution along Kensington Avenue in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ninety-one large-format color photographs paired with audio transcripts and handwritten journal entries, created over a period of 5 years, tell the personal stories of those fighting to survive their addiction and the neighborhood.