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Notting Hill Carnival – A window into the past
As one of the biggest displays of Caribbean culture in the world, the legacy of Notting Hill Carnival is steeped in both celebration and struggle. After the Windrush scandal threatened the security and...
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Cocoa industry returns to São Tomé
Over 100 years have passed since São Tomé could claim to be the world’s largest producer of cocoa. But investment from Fair Trade companies and global demand for craft chocolate are finally putting...
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Pest Control: Eradicating deadly livestock diseases
A new vaccination strategy aims to eradicate peste de petits ruminants, a deadly disease affecting sheep and goats Only two infectious diseases have ever been actively eradicated by humans. One is very...
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Raoul Island: Never on Sunday
When author Lydia Syson set a historical novel on a Pacific island in the remote Kermadecs, the last thing she imagined was that she’d one day see it for herself I feel like a fish out of water...
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Navigation of the Blue Nile - 50 years on
Fifty years since the great Blue Nile was first traversed, Colonel John Blashford-Snell, a leader of the expedition, recalls the epic journey On Tuesday 2 October 2018, the 50th Anniversary of the...
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Along the New Silk Road – Anaklia: A stepping stone to Europe
As part of our monthly series of reports looking at the impact China’s BRI project is having on the local infrastructure situated along its route, explorer and China scholar Charles Stevens visits a...
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Tropical disease research led by poorer nations
Many countries that are classified as being ‘not high income’ nonetheless lead the world in tropical disease research When Zika broke out in South America in 2016, Brazil put more research and...
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Eswatini: crafting a future
The small southern African nation of Eswatini has a rich history of handicrafts, and is populated by modern artisans. Can this cultural heritage help the country formerly known as Swaziland overcome...
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Kayaking Raja Ampat
In the Indonesian archipelago of Raja Ampat, new measures to protect marine biodiversity are now bearing fruit. Daniel Allen takes to the area’s teeming waters to see the effect such measures are...
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Fearghal O'Nuallain
Fearghal O’Nuallain is a geography teacher and explorer. His edited book, The Kindness of Strangers, is on sale now, with all proceeds going to Oxfam's work with refugees I’m a geography teacher that...
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World Food Day 2018
{youtube}UTUG-WPkJX0{/youtube} Feeding the Galápagos The Galápagos are often thought of as a unique natural paradise, but they are also home to 30,000 people. In such a remote part of the world,...
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Southeast Asia swapping opium with coffee
The ‘golden triangle’ switches from growing opium crops to coffee The infamous ‘golden triangle’, once the capital of Southeast Asia’s illegal opium trade, is in the middle of a transition. Hundreds of...
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Explore 2018 - The modern explorer
With the RGS-IBG’s annual Explore weekend on the horizon, the Society’s vice president for expeditions and field research, Katie Willis, looks to international collaboration as the key to successful...
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Along the New Silk Road – Khorgos: Where East meets West
In this penultimate instalment of our monthly series of reports looking at the impact China’s BRI project is having on the local infrastructure situated along its route, explorer and China scholar...
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Reintroduction of military conscription in Morocco
Morocco reintroduces compulsory military service, one of many countries debating the ‘merits’ of conscription The Moroccan government announced recently that 2019 will see a year’s compulsory military...
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Researching migration in Mongolia
Anoushka Carter came up with the idea of a research trip to Mongolia as an undergraduate. Overcoming plenty of obstacles along the way, she investigated the migration of traditional herding communities...
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Simon Reeve
Simon Reeve is an author and TV presenter whose latest BBC show is The Mediterranean with Simon Reeve. His new book is Step by Step: The Life in My Journeys My route into media was from the bottom. I’d...
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Bamboo bicycling around New Zealand
Impassioned teacher and marine conservationist Libby Bowles looks back at her bamboo bicycle tour of New Zealand’s schools, where she built awareness about and inspired solutions to the ocean plastics...
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Groundcherries might be on the menu as CRISPR allows scientists to modify crops
Gene editing technology means scientists are close to changing small-scale crops into plants suitable for industrial production Culinary connoisseurs may already be aware of the groundcherry, the small...
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The Stigma of Angels
Film-maker Jane Labous documents the taboos faced by Senegalese women when it comes to infertility {youtube}27lpQMowocY{/youtube} Infertility affects thousands of women across Senegal, yet the subject...
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