Laura Cole
Particularly bad: interactive map shows extent of air pollution
Dec 02, 2016
Published in
Mapping
New 3D maps reveal the extent of a near-invisible threat: microscopic pollutants
Cathy Dreyer: award-winning rhino whisperer
Dec 01, 2016
Published in
I’m a Geographer
For her work protecting South African black rhino populations, Cathy Dreyer won the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa
Moor than meets the eye
Dec 13, 2016
Published in
Discovering Britain
In this month’s Discovering Britain, Laura Cole visits Rannoch Moor, a plateau of bog in the Scottish Highlands, shaped by its glacial geography as well as the fraught history of the people who used to live there
Out of the dark: Ghana's power problems
Dec 03, 2016
Published in
Energy
As a dried-up dam starts to refill, and a push towards cleaner, renewable energy gets underway, many are still asking if Ghana’s chronic power cuts will ever come to an end?
Super stowaway: brown rats on the move
Dec 17, 2016
Published in
Wildlife
How a horde from Mongolia finally conquered the world
Explore 2016: Strange lessons from the wild
Nov 18, 2016
Published in
Explorers
Explorers share a strange experience from the wild and what it taught them
Shipping maps win at the Information Is Beautiful Awards
Nov 24, 2016
Published in
Mapping
A stunning interactive map shows a year in the life of global shipping. Its co-creators Duncan Clark and Robin Houston discuss how their data visualisations can be interpreted
EDWARD BURTYNSKY: Essential Elements by William A Ewing
Nov 14, 2016
Published in
Books
Two photographs next to each other are of opposite subjects. One is artificial: the churned-up dryland farms of the Spain’s Monegros County. The other natural: Iceland’s Thjorsa River delta. However, the pastel tones of the warm farmland and the cool blue river mirror each other
Information is Beautiful: The infographic shortlist
Oct 31, 2016
Published in
Mapping
From US debt to cosmic exploration, water use to missing migrants, these 15 infographics are in the running for the Information is Beautiful Awards 2016
Water Wall
Nov 23, 2016
Published in
Discovering Britain
For this month’s Discovering Britain viewpoint, Laura Cole explores Birmingham’s Gas Street canal basin
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