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Searching for submarines: the hunt for USS Grayback
Tim Taylor recalls the trials and tribulations of his team’s attempt to find the sunken remains of the Second World War US submarine Grayback It was June 2019 and I was aboard the research vessel Ocean...
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Politics regularly suppresses environmental research, Australian study finds
A survey of Australian scientists reveals a worrying trend towards suppression of important environmental research Australian scientists are under pressure. A recent survey of more than 220 Australian...
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Spending more money on the dangers of cannabis risks lack of medical...
Cannabis divides opinion in the USA, where money is spent on researching both its health benefits and its dangers Anyone wanting to use cannabis in the USA, whether for mevdical or recreational...
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Mother's mighty microbes: Scientists restore gut microbes of c-section babies
Scientists are working to mimic the transfer of immune-boosting microbes that takes place during vaginal births to help those born by caesarean section You aren’t quite as human as you might think. Th...
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Hazel Barton: Combating antibiotic resistance through cave exploration
Hazel Barton is a microbiologist and cave researcher. She is passionate about the alue of exploration to help humanity combat the planet's most urgent issues I started exploring caves at 14. They can...
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The Geographical Christmas Gift Guide!
Geographical’s first ever Christmas Gift Guide. Eco-friendly, ethically made, sustainable... The gift ideas below have been chosen to appeal to curious-minded people with a love of geography. We’ve...
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For the Christmas tree pickers of Georgia, a two-week period is make or break
Every autumn in the Caucasus Mountains, men climb to the top of Nordmann firs to harvest pine cones whose seeds will feed the lucrative European Christmas tree market. But this activity generates very...
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Steven Amstrup: Chief scientist for Polar Bears International (PBI)
Steven Amstrup has dedicated his life to polar bears, working to understand their behaviour, mitigate their threats and conserve their remote and threatened polar habitat ‘I moved into the polar bear...
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The frozen lake: Life on the outskirts of Lake Baikal, Siberia
Life on the outskirts of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, the world’s deepest lake, is evolving, but change comes slowly to Russia’s frozen outpost, nearer to Beijing than Moscow This article was...
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Predictions of mass-migration due to climate change are rife, but not...
Climate change is forecast to trigger the mass migration of millions of people over the coming decades, but are these predictions really accurate? Chris Fitch investigates The year is 2050. Floods,...
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The vaccines have arrived, but can Covid-19’s legacy of innovation help to...
The remarkable speed with which Covid-19 vaccines were created shows how quickly medical breakthroughs can take place when funds and resources are pooled. But many diseases don’t receive such...
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Portable genetic sequencing technology helps track malaria
The recipient of the 2018 Land Rover bursary, supported by the RGS-IBG, has been awarded extra funding to continue its work In 2018, the Mobile Malaria project, led by George Busby, Jason Hendry and...
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America's opioid crisis continues – tracking supply chains could help tackle...
As the USA's devastating opioid epidemic rages on, scientists work to track the use of potent synthetic drugs. Monitoring their circulation and supply is critical to solving the crisis For the past few...
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Salepi: the endangered orchid-based drink thought to heal ailments and stoke...
Dawn Starin learns more about the orchids being sipped, slurped and swallowed into extinction In the middle of Athens, not far from the ancient Stoa of Attalos, possibly Europe’s oldest shopping mall,...
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Searching for the source of Papua New Guinea’s longest river
Applying Western geographical concepts to distant lands isn’t always a straightforward pursuit, as Charlie Walker discovered during a quest to locate the remote, unmapped source of Papua New Guinea’s...
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How far off is the steel industry from decarbonising?
Pressure is mounting on steelmakers to decarbonise, but it’s proving to be a particularly difficult industry to clean up Edit: This piece was originally published in the March edition of Geographical...
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What is it like being a scientist in Antarctica? Geographical speaks with...
Peter Fretwell is a senior geographic information scientist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He tells Geographical about his career, and what it's like being a scientist for BAS ‘I did a...
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A new life in Iceland farming nature's warmest material
Polar explorer Felicity Aston and her Icelandic husband took on the challenge of a lifetime when they became custodians of an island in the remote Arctic Westfjords to learn the art of eider down...
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Covid-19 has changed science and our relationship with it forever
With millions of lives at stake, scientists have accelerated research and its dissemination to tackle Covid-19. When we emerge from the pandemic, science, and our relationship with it, may never be the...
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Thirty years on from the Human Genome Project, there’s still so much more to...
Twenty years ago, a group of scientists published the first draft of the Human Genome Project, revolutionising the study of human health and disease It was 30 years ago that a group of ambitious...
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