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Down the Danube
Nov 06, 2017
Written by
Chris Fitch
Earlier this year, a group of packrafters set out on an epic endeavour to paddle across Europe, navigating their way from Ireland all the way to the distant Black Sea. Chris Fitch joined them as they made their way through…
The inspectors call: Chinese environmental crackdown
Nov 04, 2017
Written by
Laura Cole
China’s central government is to shut down factories and punish local officials in the latest sweep of environmental crackdowns across the country
Last of the Igu
Oct 23, 2017
Written by
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent
While travelling across the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, travel writer Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent finds herself asked to a sacrificial tribal festival in a remote village on the Indo-Tibetan border
Was Scott betrayed in Antarctica?
Oct 20, 2017
Written by
Chris Fitch
New evidence suggests the historic Antarctic expeditionary may have been undermined by Scott’s second-in-command
Regina ‘Gina’ Lopez, an environmental activist, former Environmental Secretary to Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, and member of the business elite, has been awarded the 2017 Seacology Prize for her opposition to mining and work to improve ecosystems across the islands of…
Home and Dry: Middle East water shortages
Oct 12, 2017
Written by
Chris Fitch
As the global supply of water comes under increased strain, regional instability leaves Jordan stuck between a rock and a hard place
Bonita Norris: adventurer and public speaker
Oct 09, 2017
Bonita Norris is an adventurer, public speaker and television presenter, who climbed Mount Everest in 2010 after attending an RGS-IBG lecture two years earlier. Her new book, The Girl Who Climbed Everest, is on sale now
The Matriarch Adventure
Sep 25, 2017
Written by
Catherine Edsell
Ten women, ten days, two very different matriarchal groups. When Catherine Edsell set out to lead an expedition on the trail of an all-female elephant herd in Namibia, little could she realise the similarities the groups would share
Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra. His latest book is ‘Defiant Earth’, an analysis of the Anthropocene
A line in the sand: mining a scarce resource
Sep 09, 2017
Written by
Laura Cole
Cambodia has stopped selling its sand overseas, a move that has highlighted a global shortage in this oft-overlooked global resource
Cycling the Panj Valley
Aug 22, 2017
Written by
Charles Stevens
Charles Stevens explores the landscape, history and peoples of the Panj Valley, straddling the Tajik-Afghan border as part of a four-month long Beijing to Tehran Expedition
Rodrigue Katembo risked his life to expose the corruption behind illegal oil exploration in Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Earlier this year, he was awarded the Goldman Environment Prize for his work
Revitalising endangered languages
Jul 21, 2017
Written by
Alice Sloman
Of the approximately 7,000 languages thought to be alive, the eight most spoken are accounted for by 40 per cent of the world’s population
Capitalising for linguistic peace
Jul 19, 2017
Written by
Alice Sloman
After years of debate, the German alphabet has got a new letter, but not everybody is happy about it
Kerstin Forsberg: marine conservationist
Jul 17, 2017
Kerstin Forsberg is the director of Planeta Océano, a marine conservation organisation based in Peru, and was made a Rolex Laureate for her work protecting giant manta rays in the country
Dying of thirst in the Timor Sea
Jul 05, 2017
Written by
Conrad Humphreys
Conrad Humphreys was recently part of the team that re-created Captain Bligh’s 4,000-mile open boat voyage from Tonga to Timor after he was cast adrift during a mutiny on HMS Bounty
Diabetes: The World at Risk
Jun 29, 2017
Written by
Mark Rowe
Diabetes is often thought of as a ‘western’ problem, one linked to the developed world’s overindulgence in fatty foods and chronic lack of physical activity. But with more than 400 million people affected globally, this disease is a global threat
Food for Thought
Jun 24, 2017
Written by
Laura Cole
Almost two billion people around the world depend on imported produce to combat local scarcity
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