Better World 2025 Shortlist
Geographical Better World Video Awards Vote 2025
Voting is open for the Geographical Better World Video Awards in association with Aggressor Adventures. Closes midnight, 31 January 2026
Better World Video Awards 2025: Echoes of Hope
Discover more about Beyond Conflict’s work in supporting the mental health of children and young people experiencing war trauma across the world
Better World Video Awards 2025: Spirit of the Forest
Head to the Făgăraș Mountains in Romania and discover how the historic forests there are being protected for decades to come
Better World Video Awards 2025: Dogs on the Streets
Discover more about how Dogs on the Streets are providing care for street dogs across the UK Dog care has always been of huge importance to Dogs on the Streets…
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 2025: A Better Place
In this short documentary, one simple question is asked: how can we make the world a better place?
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
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
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…
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 – 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…
Magazine previews
Quizzes
QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Greenland
Test your knowledge with our Greenland quiz and explore the unique culture and landscape of this Arctic wonder.
QUIZ: Capital Cities – Hard
Put your knowledge to the test with the capital cities quiz. How well do you really know your world capitals?
QUIZ: Climate Change
Test your knowledge with our engaging climate change quiz and learn more about the impact of climate change.
QUIZ: Flags of the World – Pacific Islands
Explore the vibrant world of Pacific Island flags and test your knowledge with our fun flag quiz.
QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Ireland
Test your knowledge with our engaging Ireland quiz covering geography, major cities, and stunning natural features.
Geo explainers
From museums to medicine, from sport to the arts – the ‘insidious’ spread of fossil fuel funding
From BP’s hand in London’s Science Museum to sportswashing around the world, discover how oil giants can influence companies, brands and institutions globally
What is the AI bubble – and will it burst?
Worldwide, AI expenditure is set to hit $644 billion by the end of the year. But will such vast investment yield profit?
Geo explainer: Why are wildfires getting worse?
Discover the several reasons behind increasingly common wildfires around the world, including those in California
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.
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.
Worldview – opinion, comment & campaigns
Review: Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross
Shafik Meghji reviews Upon A White Horse, a fascinating book uncovering ancient monuments and sites across the UK and Ireland When it comes to stone circles, Glasgow isn’t the first…
How Oasis’s music transcends time & place
From Motown to Britpop, music has the power to turn a city into a global landmark. In Manchester, Oasis continue to define their city You get a special type of…
How a disputed map fuels longstanding feud between Cambodia & Thailand
A centuries- old temple, a disputed map and a border still bristling with tension…
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
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
Discovering Britain
Where the dinosaurs last walked in Britain
Rory Walsh revisits Folkestone to explore the prehistoric Kent coast where dinosaurs last roamed
Discovering Britain: The enduring story of Beeston Castle
Rory Walsh visits a Cheshire castle with ancient foundations
Discovering Britain: Maritime Greenwich
Rory Walsh travels through time and space to a London landmark that shaped the world
Discovering Britain: the stone age secrets of Craig Rhos-y-felin
Rory Walsh explores how a Welsh mountain range became part of Stonehenge
Discovering Britain: Darent Valley, earthly paradise
Rory Walsh explores working life and landscape art in a picturesque Kent valley
Long Reads
What does it feel like to stand at 90° North?
A journey through crushing sea ice, polar research stations and wildlife encounters reveals the Arctic in all its stark wonder
The desert that fed the world
A journey through Chile’s far north reveals how the Atacama shaped global agriculture, redrew borders and left a political legacy that continues to resonate
The life and works of VS Naipaul
VS Naipaul wrote with a precision that left readers unsettled and awed. As his centenary nears, we revisit the writer who turned exile into art
Why are whales stranding along Scotland’s coast?
Mark Rowe investigates the surge in whale strandings along Scotland’s coast — a warning sign, scientists say, of deeper changes in the North Atlantic ecosystem
How control over crops may decide who holds power in a warming world
As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway – one that few have noticed, but all will feel
