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Libya’s Human Marketplace
Photojournalist Narciso Contreras exposes the reality of large-scale human trafficking which has emerged in post-Gaddafi Libya The humanitarian crisis which has firmly taken hold of Libya in recent...
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A Voyage to Remember
In 2015, Rod Rhys Jones, Chairman of the British Antarctic Monument Trust, saw the realisation of a long-held plan to see a memorial to those who lost their lives in the pursuit of scientific...
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Culture Shock: The war over heritage
The conflict in Syria has focused attention on the ‘war crime’ of inflicting damage to significant cultural property By any measure, the events of the past six years in Syria have been devastating....
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National Clean Air Day
For National Clean Air Day, Geographical brings together stories about air pollution and the kind of solutions needed to tackle it It is everywhere – the air we breath and the pollutants we put into...
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Zagori – hiking through history
Hiking and exploring Zagori, northern Greece, reveals more than just a spectacular geological landscape; it also uncovers the deep and rich histories of ancient culture You know exactly when you’ve...
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Food for Thought
Almost two billion people around the world depend on imported produce to combat local scarcity In Egypt, bread is so much a staple that its Arabic name aish also means ‘life’. Before the uprising of...
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Diabetes: The World at Risk
Diabetes is often thought of as a ‘western’ problem, one linked to the developed world’s overindulgence in fatty foods and chronic lack of physical activity. But with more than 400 million people...
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The enduring heritage of Zagori
Traditional crafts and cultural tourism are visible symbols of the local heritage being re-embraced across Zagori The deafening sound of wood smacking into more wood echoes around the room of...
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Dying of thirst in the Timor Sea
Conrad Humphreys was recently part of the team that re-created Captain Bligh’s 4,000-mile open boat voyage from Tonga to Timor after he was cast adrift during a mutiny on HMS Bounty We staggered up the...
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Kerstin Forsberg: marine conservationist
Kerstin Forsberg is the director of Planeta Océano, a marine conservation organisation based in Peru, and was made a Rolex Laureate for her work protecting giant manta rays in the country Manta rays...
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Capitalising for linguistic peace
After years of debate, the German alphabet has got a new letter, but not everybody is happy about it At the end of June, the Council for German Orthography (Rechtschreibrat) decided that Germany’s...
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Revitalising endangered languages
Of the approximately 7,000 languages thought to be alive, the eight most spoken are accounted for by 40 per cent of the world’s population Languages are considered endangered when their last fluent...
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Rodrigue Katembo: ranger, activist, and ex-child soldier
Rodrigue Katembo risked his life to expose the corruption behind illegal oil exploration in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Earlier this year, he was awarded the Goldman...
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Cycling the Panj Valley
Charles Stevens explores the landscape, history and peoples of the Panj Valley, straddling the Tajik-Afghan border as part of a four-month long Beijing to Tehran Expedition ‘The world is a small place’...
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A line in the sand: mining a scarce resource
Cambodia has stopped selling its sand overseas, a move that has highlighted a global shortage in this oft-overlooked global resource Responding to pressure from environmental groups, the government of...
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Clive Hamilton: author and public intellectual on climate change
Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra. His latest book is ‘Defiant Earth’, an analysis of the Anthropocene What has happened in...
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The Matriarch Adventure
Ten women, ten days, two very different matriarchal groups. When Catherine Edsell set out to lead an expedition on the trail of an all-female elephant herd in Namibia, little could she realise the...
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Bonita Norris: adventurer and public speaker
Bonita Norris is an adventurer, public speaker and television presenter, who climbed Mount Everest in 2010 after attending an RGS-IBG lecture two years earlier. Her new book, The Girl Who Climbed...
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Home and Dry: Middle East water shortages
As the global supply of water comes under increased strain, regional instability leaves Jordan stuck between a rock and a hard place For a country specifically named after a river, water shortages are...
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Gina Lopez: Environmental activist in the Philippines
Regina ‘Gina’ Lopez, an environmental activist, former Environmental Secretary to Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, and member of the business elite, has been awarded the 2017 Seacology Prize for...
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