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Back to the Delta – on safari in Botswana

Back to the Delta – on safari in Botswana

Better World Video Awards 2025: Return

Better World Video Awards 2025: Return

QUIZ: The Flags of Europe

QUIZ: The Flags of Europe

QUIZ: Geography Trivia

QUIZ: Geography Trivia

Why are cod populations dwindling?

Why are cod populations dwindling?

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Check out the Better World Video Awards 2025

Better World Video Awards 2025: Return

Better World Video Awards 2025: Return

Watch the inspiring journey of sea eagles in the UK. Discover how they returned from extinction thanks to conservation efforts.
Better World Video Awards: Tebogo

Better World Video Awards: Tebogo

In this short film, learn more about the devastating impact of South Africa’s illegal succulent trade, and the work being done to combat it
Save Danes Moss sign

Better World Video Awards 2025: Saving Danes Moss

In this short film, Issy Drake uncovers the fascinating role played by a British bog – and why its existence is pivotal for habitats and animals alike
Better World Video Awards 2025: Dancing With Trees

Better World Video Awards 2025: Dancing With Trees

In this short film, parkour athlete Louis Allan inspires others to connect to nature through the art of climbing trees
Limbo short film cover with Better World Video Awards logo

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Limbo

A powerful account of one couple’s struggle to rebuild after catastrophic flooding and the silence that followed
Sacha Dench with swans

Better World Video Awards 2025: Flight of the Swans

Conservationist Sacha Dench embarked on an epic migration of 7,000 km from the Russian Arctic to the UK to save a swan
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
Scenic summer landscape and the river Thames

Better World Video Awards 2025: A River Sings

Find out more about how Evenlode Catchment Partnership are utilising natural flood management measures to protect local UK villages
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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…

Mexican Caribbean coastline with Better World Video Awards logo

Better World Video Awards 2025 – Mantas of the Mexican Caribbean

Exploring the lives of manta rays in the Caribbean and the people working to protect them ‘Mantas of the Mexican Caribbean’ is a short documentary highlighting over a decade of…

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
Better World Video Awards 2025: Bricks

Better World Video Awards 2025: Bricks

One year later, actor and animal activist Peter Egan returns to the brick kilns of Egypt with Safe Haven 4 Donkeys
Better World Video Awards 2025

Better World Video Awards 2025

The Geographical and Aggressor Adventures 2025 Better World Video Awards are now open

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Quizzes

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QUIZ: The Flags of Europe
Quizzes

QUIZ: The Flags of Europe

Discover the various Europe flags and challenge yourself to identify the unique symbols and colours of each nation.
QUIZ: Geography Trivia
Quizzes

QUIZ: Geography Trivia

Think you know geography? Challenge yourself with geography trivia and uncover surprises about our world.
QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Montenegro
Quizzes

QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Montenegro

Discover fascinating Montenegro facts in our engaging quiz. Test your knowledge and learn more about this beautiful country.
QUIZ: Geography Trivia
Quizzes

QUIZ: Geography Trivia

Challenge yourself with a geography quiz that tests your knowledge of the world. Are you ready to prove your skills?
QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard
Quizzes

QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard

Challenge your global knowledge with our flag quiz. How many flags can you identify correctly? Test yourself now!

Geo explainers

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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

Cambodia Thailand flag

How a disputed map fuels longstanding feud between Cambodia & Thailand

A centuries- old temple, a disputed map and a border still bristling with tension…
signpost of gap year and university

Closing doors – how rising costs and politics are curbing student travel

Fewer undergraduates are taking gap years – but it doesn’t have to be that way. We need a reinvention, not a rejection, of student travel
Earth from space

Why is our planet so important?

If the Earth is the sole outpost of awareness in the cosmos, our stewardship isn’t optional – it’s essential
Artwork of Russian flag and stocks and stacks of money

Russian sanctions backfire as Putin profits from war economy

Designed to topple a regime, sanctions have helped build a fortress economy where loyalty is rewarded and dissent crushed – consolidating Putin’s power.Antonio Graceffo reports
The bias of balance: net zero, denial and political spin

The bias of balance: net zero, denial and political spin

From climate change to Gaza, the pursuit of ‘balance’ often misleads rather than informs, warns Andrew Brooks

Discovering Britain

The castle was built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville

Discovering Britain: The enduring story of Beeston Castle

Discovering Britain: Maritime Greenwich

Discovering Britain: Maritime Greenwich

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

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Long reads

Back to the Delta – on safari in Botswana

Back to the Delta – on safari in Botswana

An adult curlew flying over the North Pennine moors

The last call of the curlew

Monks celebrate a Buddhist festival at a monastery in the Bumthang Valley, the spiritual heartland of Bhutan

Bhutan: a kingdom built on happiness

The Alqueva dam is nearly 100 metres high, creating a reservoir that can hold 4,150 million cubic metres of water

Western Europe’s largest artificial lake was meant to save southern Portugal. It may be doing the opposite

Cedar Breaks International Dark Sky Park

Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah’s national parks

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Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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