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Winner of the 2025 Andrew Kapochunas Environmental Map Issues Prize

"Loss of Forests in Lithuania: 2015-25" ( Miškų nykimas Lietuvoje: 2015–2025 m.) Jelena Vaitkevičienė The Lithuanian Cartographic Society is pleased to congratulate Jelena Vaitkevičienė, winner of the 2025 Andrew Kapochunas Prize for Environmental Issues Map. She submitted a set of maps depicting deforestation in Lithuania. The maps show which locations and administrative units have seen the greatest decline in forest areas from 2015 to 2025. ( Lietuvos kartografų draugija d

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Watch the Interview with Saulius Sužiedėlis

The interview of Lithuanian historian Saulius Sužiedėlis by Jonathan Brent, Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City, is now available on YouTube. To access a version of the recording without the typical annoying YouTube ads, click the link below, which is hosted by YIVO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFBxDBq6Hq4 I first met and spoke with Jonathan Brent in New Haven, Connecticut, October 12-13, 2023, at the "Vilnius 700 Symposium"...

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Nov 11