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Better World Video Awards 2025: 10 Years of Seenaryo

Better World Video Awards 2025: 10 Years of Seenaryo

The UK Tree of the Year 2025 shortlist

The UK Tree of the Year 2025 shortlist

QUIZ: Extreme US State Capitals

QUIZ: Extreme US State Capitals

Time for Britain to show some sisu

Time for Britain to show some sisu

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

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Check out the Better World Video Awards 2025

A photo of a performance by Seenaryo

Better World Video Awards 2025: 10 Years of Seenaryo

How the power of theatre and performance can transform lives across Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Syria
Senegalese hairdresser facing the camera with better world video awards logo

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Community Empowerment in Senegal

Action Against Hunger’s Boolo Xeex Xibon Project is helping local Senegalese communities to thrive In northern Senegal, child malnutrition has reached emergency levels. But amid the crisis, communities are leading…

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Living with Sharks in the Bahamas

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Living with Sharks in the Bahamas

Sharks are making a comeback, and we need to learn to live with them Living with Sharks in the Bahamas is a new mini-documentary from Shark Trust, which explores what…

Kewang member in the Haruku forest, Indonesia

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Kewang: Nature’s Ancient Guardians

The story of Haruku Island’s traditional nature protectors and their quest to protect fragile ecosystems Kewang: Nature’s Ancient Guardians is a compelling documentary set on Haruku Island in Indonesia’s Maluku…

Better World Video Awards 2025: Linda’s Story

Better World Video Awards 2025: Linda’s Story

Linda’s story of violence, cruelty and exploitation spans more than 20 years. In a powerful short film, she bravely shares her experience

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QUIZ: Extreme US State Capitals
Quizzes

QUIZ: Extreme US State Capitals

Join the ultimate challenge of USA state capitals! Test your knowledge by guessing thirty capitals correctly.
QUIZ: Deserts
Quizzes

QUIZ: Deserts

Test your knowledge of the world’s deserts with these tricky questions about Earth’s driest places. Good luck!

QUIZ: Capital Cities – Africa
Quizzes

QUIZ: Capital Cities – Africa

Welcome to the African Capitals Quiz! Test your knowledge on the continent’s capital cities. Achieve a score above 75% for…

QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard
Quizzes

QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard

How well do you know your flags? From bold stripes to curious colours, flags reveal a lot about a country’s…

QUIZ: Geography Trivia
Quizzes

QUIZ: Geography Trivia

Test your global smarts with this random mix of geographical brain-teasers from every corner of the map. Good luck!

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Eagle Creek Wildfire in Columbia River Gorge forest, Oregon
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: Why are wildfires getting worse?

Discover the several reasons behind increasingly common wildfires around the world, including those in California
After the heavy rains and floods of last week in Merzouga, beautiful lakes have formed along the edges of Erg Chebbi.
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: Will the Sahara flood again?

Discover the Sahara Desert’s fascinating past – and why climate change may make flooding a likely part of its future.
Container cargo ship at industrial port
Briefing

Geo explainer: Where in the world are the busiest shipping lanes?

Take a deep dive into the world’s busiest shipping lanes according to the number of vessels passing through them each day.
Cape Town city and table mountain in the background during sunset
Briefing

Geo explainer: Exploring Africa’s economy and GDP

Five countries account for half of Africa’s total GDP, playing crucial roles in the continent’s economy – but where exactly are they?
Train of Phosphate in Sahara of Tunisia
Briefing

Geo explainer: What is phosphate mining – and why is it important?

Phosphate rock is an essential element for life on Earth. Discover its applications and why its mining threatens planetary health…

Worldview – opinion, comment & campaigns

Eighty per cent of Finns say that they are happy to help with national defence

Time for Britain to show some sisu

Tim Marshall argues it’s time for the UK to consider Finland’s model for national preparedness The UK needs to rediscover its inner sisu. That is, assuming it still has it.…

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

Patrick Brown lays out a vision for a Global Climate Club – and why the world can no longer afford to wait for the USA to catch up
An elderly woman rides a tractor in the countryside

Beyond the farmer’s wife: unpacking gendered spaces

From Scottish tractors to Senegalese rice fields, Andrew Brooks traces how outdated labels still frame women’s work and men’s status across global landscapes
digital art of the world on a cliff edge

Not just climate: the threats combining to destroy our planet

Marco Magrini argues we’re not facing multiple crises – just a single, dangerously interlinked emergency
Desperate children plead for food in Gaza

UK Report Warns Humanitarian Law Is Being ‘Hollowed Out’ Amid Rising Global Crises

Cuts to aid and politicisation of relief undermine safety, access, and accountability in conflict zones The International Development Committee’s latest report, Protection Not Permission: The UK’s Role in Upholding International…

Discovering Britain

The Preseli Mountains at sunrise

Discovering Britain: the stone age secrets of Craig Rhos-y-felin

The lavender fields at Castle Farm

Discovering Britain: Darent Valley, earthly paradise

Scrabo Tower, overlooking Strangford Lough

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

The city grid of Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes: Soulless suburb or urban utopia?

Worcester Cathedral with Watergate in foreground

Discovering Britain: the watery tale of Worcester

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Long reads

Cedar Breaks International Dark Sky Park

Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah’s national parks

A woman sits outside the ruins of houses destroyed in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead

Living among the graves: Cairo’s City of the Dead faces an uncertain future

Small ship cruise lines such as Swan Hellenic are taking the lead on sustainability

Can the cruise industry navigate a sustainable future?

Workers unload a cargo of smoked fish at the train station in Luena, Angola, more than 700 kilometres from Lobito on the coast

The Lobito Corridor: the new scramble for critical minerals

Joey Apachee’s family stands in front of the house he started building for himself and his two children before his death. From left to right: Joe’s mother, Virginia Apachee, daughter, Ashton, and son, Julian

Missing, murdered and forgotten: The Navajo families fight for justice

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