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The Paparoa track: Previewing New Zealand’s tenth ‘Great Walk’
Commemorating a mining tragedy that shocked the nation a decade ago, New Zealand’s rugged West Coast will soon be home to the Paparoa track, the first new ‘Great Walk’ in over 25 years. Chris Fitch...
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Why larger communities create more systematic languages
An experiment that asked different sized groups to invent a new language has revealed that community size plays an important role in determining the type of language that develops The differences...
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The future of shipping? Hydrogen-powered Energy Observer reaches London
The world’s first hydrogen-powered boat to tour the world, Energy Observer, has sailed into London. With no CO2 emissions, no fine particles and no noise that could disturb underwater fauna, the ship...
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Groundwater levels in nine African countries raise hopes for a more resilient...
Increased rainfall intensity, predicted to occur as the climate changes, could benefit groundwater levels in nine African countries Humans take the water we need, be it for drinking or irrigation, from...
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Sandscaping Norfolk could save these disappearing villages
Vast quantities of sand are being deposited along a stretch of the Norfolk coast to slow down coastal erosion Every year, the cliffs of the Norfolk coast are ground back another metre by the...
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Mikael Frödin: fly fisherman and environmental activist
Mikael Frödin is a Swedish-born professional fly fisherman turned environmental activist. In 2019 he appeared in the film, Artifishal, to highlight the dangers of open-net salmon farms There’s always...
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What Chile’s sacrifice zones tell us about the ongoing riots
As the world’s attention focuses on the rioting in Santiago, eyes are also being drawn to the Chilean government’s mixed messages on environmental matters ahead of this year’s COP25 summit Twenty...
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Ed Stafford: TV explorer and author
Ed Stafford is a former British army captain who became the first person to walk the length of the Amazon River. His most recent book, Expeditions Unpacked, about the equipment used on some of the...
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Treading on History: Why Uluru is closing to climbers
From 26 October, tourists will no longer be able to climb Uluru. Chris Fitch heads to the sacred site to discover what this means for Aboriginal people and visitors alike The name for tourists here is...
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Conflict and compassion: How Chile’s ‘social crisis’ could reframe the...
Protestors claim the nation’s neo-liberal system is broken. Amid bullets and tear gas, socio-economic reforms are being rushed through. With the COP25 climate conference fast approaching, could this...
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Prisoners of Geography: An Interview with Tim Marshall
How the best-selling author is making complex matters of geography accessible for the next generation By minute three of my conversation with Tim Marshall, the subject of his new book has been dropped...
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Why a ‘green’ burial is best for the environment
A new green cemetery in Paris indicates the growing desire among citizens for an eco-friendly death ‘You’ll die of old age, but I’ll die of climate change,’ read placards at Oslo’s ‘school strike for...
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China’s social credit systems - a step too far in a bid to shape a society?
The Chinese government aims to put a ‘social credit system’ in place by 2020; a virtual scoring platform that uses personal data to assess the behaviour and ‘trustworthiness’ of every citizen. But can...
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Conservation initiatives spread ‘like a disease’
Massive scientific investment has now identified the primary threats to biodiversity, but comparably little research has examined how and why some conservation initiatives spread while others falter...
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The Silk Road: An object lesson
In an epic new book from traveller and curator Susan Whitfield, 80 leading scholars detail the history of the fabled Silk Road is through its people, cultures and landscapes Silk Roads situates the...
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The future of oil states: can the Middle East go green?
The concept of renewable energy in the Middle East sounds incongruous, for this is a region that is home to more than half of the world’s crude oil and more than a third of its natural gas reserves....
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Louise Callaghan: Middle East correspondent and author
Louise Callaghan is the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times and author of Father of Lions, the true story of Abu Laith, his family and team, who ran a zoo in Mosul during the Isis...
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Inside the Terror - Life on board Sir John Franklin’s lost ships
Joseph Frey, governor of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, discusses the latest findings from the team surveying the lost ships of Sir John Franklin As a member of the 2014 Parks Canada-led...
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Victorien Erussard: co-leader and president of the Energy Observer expedition
Victorien Erussard is the co-leader and president of the Energy Observer expedition, the first ship to sail around the world powered only by hydrogen, wind and solar power. The expedition will take six...
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How would a four-day week affect the environment?
The four-day week is often held as being of benefit to human well-being, but what would working fewer hours really mean for the environment? The benefits of a four-day working week, we have been told,...
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