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Andrew Gorman-Murray
Apr 03, 2015
Andrew Gorman-Murray is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Western Sydney. His work examines how domestic life has changed in Australia, and explores how natural disasters impact sexual minorities and Australia’s cultural response to climate change
From Makkah to Madinah
Mar 31, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
A new book uses GPS and GIS to trace the Prophet Muhammad’s route from Makkah to Madinah with increased accuracy
Climate tones
Mar 22, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Geography can change the way you speak, and not just through the use of jargon
Man on ice
Mar 17, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
What would it be like to live on an iceberg for a year? Alex Bellini intends to find out
Owen Hatherley
Mar 16, 2015
Owen Haterley is a writer and journalist specialising in architecture, politics and culture. In A New Kind of Bleak, he looks at how the recession changed Britain’s urban landscape
Videogames for volcanoes
Mar 10, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
A videogame may help prepare a small Caribbean island for a potential disaster
Call of the wild
Mar 09, 2015
Written by
Pete Coombs
Geographical has teamed up with Ray Mears and Ontario Tourism to offer a prize of a guided wilderness holiday with the wilderness expert himself. Pete Coombs couldn’t believe his luck when he got to try it first
Cave culture
Mar 05, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Geographical takes a look at a geological formation that’s close to being humankind’s oldest home
Dealing with drugs
Mar 02, 2015
Written by
Mark Rowe
While Ebola makes the headlines, a raft of unreported and under-researched diseases are responsible for far more deaths across Africa every year. But without adequate financial rewards for the West, too little is being done to help
Ethiopia’s hidden treasures
Feb 26, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Ethiopia was among the world’s first Christian countries, but its many remote churches remain hidden – even from the locals
Climbing aboard the funding cycle
Feb 24, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Even professional fundraisers find it tough to raise money when the project is personal. Craig Pollard, of More Partnership shares advice for those looking to set off along the fundraising trail
A band apart
Feb 22, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
The Bushmen people's belief that they are amongst human's most ancient races has reportedly been proven
Afghan Ink
Feb 20, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
An artist records day-to-day Afghan life from Kabul to Herat in ink
Drug-resistant malaria hits Asia
Feb 20, 2015
Written by
Tom Hayes
Malaria that has developed total resistance to the anti-malarial drug Artemisinin has been identified over a far larger area than previously known – putting millions of lives at risk
Britain’s deeper human history
Feb 19, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
A vanishing UK coastline reveals a deeper human history
Jules Pretty
Feb 16, 2015
Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex, specialising in agricultural sustainability, nature and wellbeing. His latest book, The Edge of Extinction, explores life and change in cultures across the world
Expats’ Ecu-adore!
Feb 13, 2015
Written by
Tom Hayes
A 2014 study, The World Through Expat Eyes, has found Ecuador to be the country with the most content expat population
Though the Aleutians to Alaska
Feb 12, 2015
Written by
Sarah Outen
Sarah Outen describes her kayaking expedition along the Aleutian Islands, a significant undertaking that is just one part of her ongoing human powered journey around the world
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