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Medellín: The City of Eternal Spring
Jan 01, 2016
Written by
Sarah Gilbert
Sarah Gilbert encounters a city once known only for drugs and violence that is being successfully reinvented as a social and artistic haven
Snow Bound
Dec 23, 2015
Written by
Graeme Gourlay
Travelling in the tiny and relatively new nation of Slovenia, Graeme Gourlay finds it impossible not to notice the connection its residents have with their landscape
Species at risk
Dec 19, 2015
Written by
Benjamin Hennig
Benjamin Hennig maps endangered wildlife species around the world
Why Chinese cities are different
Dec 08, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Urban design and sustainable infrastructure will play a huge role in building a low-carbon global economy. But cities in one key player – China – have some significant differences to the rest of the world
COP21 Diaries: Building lung capacity
Dec 02, 2015
Written by
Marco Magrini
Marco Magrini reports for Geographical on daily events at the COP21 UN climate change conference in Paris
Mapping rewilding
Nov 23, 2015
Written by
Stephen Carver
Definitions of rewilding vary but it can be defined loosely as the process of giving space within human-dominated landscapes back to nature with associated benefits for both wildlife and humans
Rock around the block
Nov 20, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
The British Geological Survey is using Minecraft to create huge maps of Great Britain
Indonesia’s burning issue
Nov 20, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Extreme forest and peat burning in Indonesia has released over three times the annual fossil fuel emissions of the United Kingdom
Earth’s hidden groundwater
Nov 18, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
For the first time, scientists have been able to calculate the quantity of groundwater up to two kilometres beneath Earth’s crust. They found that less than six per cent of it is renewable within a human lifetime
Dimensions of poverty
Nov 14, 2015
Written by
Benjamin Hennig
With poverty and global development on the agenda, Benjamin Hennig maps out where in the world poverty still persists
Mapping Ebola in hindsight
Nov 11, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
A team of researchers have mapped the course of the deadly Ebola virus in Sierra Leone. They hope it will aid disease response in the future
Watching carbon dioxide from space
Nov 05, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Observing the Earth’s atmosphere from space, a NASA satellite illustrates changes in the abundance of carbon dioxide
A billion for Brazil
Oct 31, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
The Norwegian government is set to complete the transfer of US$1billion to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, in recognition of the South American country’s efforts to tackle deforestation
Urban security
Oct 30, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Preparing for a seemingly limitless number of future threats has become a major challenge for the world’s cities, and helping to build resilience into their infrastructure is their ultimate goal
What’s in a name?
Oct 28, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
The highest mountain in North America’s has been renamed ‘Denali’ after 98 years of being called ‘Mount McKinley’
Ecological footprints
Oct 20, 2015
Written by
Benjamin Hennig
Benjamin Hennig maps humanity’s ecological footprints
Israel, Palestine and the environment
Oct 08, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
The Arava Institute brings together Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian and international students to talk about a shared issue – the environment
Rainbow nation
Sep 21, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
Riding the new fad for adult colouring books, the Ordnance Survey has a produced a set of labyrinthian city maps to get your felt tips into
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