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How can we make expeditions more planet-friendly?

Using biofuels can make a significant difference in the emissions and environmental footprint of remote expeditions
Using snow machines to preserve ski slopes in the Alps is not sustainable

Why we need to get smarter about adaptation

ByVictoria HeathOct 30, 2025
In this extract from her new book Sink or Swim, Susannah Fisher unpacks ten reasons why efforts to adapt are proving so difficult to deliver
Who Will Tell My Story: A Gaza Diary

Who Will Tell My Story: A Gaza Diary

An edited extract from ‘Who Will Tell My Story: A Gaza Diary - by an anonymous Gazan manwho has fled his home and is living in exile’
Fish or Famine – why the future of our oceans matters to everyone

Fish or Famine – why the future of our oceans matters to everyone

ByMark RoweSep 17, 2025
Explore the critical issue of overfishing and its impact on ocean health and fish populations worldwide.
Back to the Delta – on safari in Botswana

Back to the Delta – on safari in Botswana

Witness the stunning wildlife of Botswana while understanding the threats posed by human activity to its pristine landscapes.
An adult curlew flying over the North Pennine moors

The last call of the curlew

Across the UK, the curlew’s call is fading – but in the Lyth Valley, a band of volunteers and farmers are working to make sure it isn’t lost forever
Monks celebrate a Buddhist festival at a monastery in the Bumthang Valley, the spiritual heartland of Bhutan

Bhutan: a kingdom built on happiness

ByStuart ButlerAug 21, 2025

Enshrined in national policy and rooted in Buddhist belief, Gross National Happiness has shaped Bhutan’s path for decades. But in…

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

The Alqueva dam promised prosperity for Portugal’s parched south. Instead, it’s fuelling a corporate-driven monoculture that ecologists and farmers warn is destroying the land and the way of life that it sustained
Cedar Breaks International Dark Sky Park

Darkness falls, stars rise in Utah’s national parks

ByBryony CottamJul 4, 2025
With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the universe
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

ByStuart ButlerJul 3, 2025
 In Cairo’s City of the Dead, where homes are mausoleums and communities have grown among the graves, residents speak out against the destruction of their lives and heritage – and the silence that surrounds it 
Small ship cruise lines such as Swan Hellenic are taking the lead on sustainability

Can the cruise industry navigate a sustainable future?

ByBryony CottamJun 25, 2025
The cruise industry is under scrutiny for its environmental toll – but a new wave of sustainable initiatives is charting a greener course for ocean travel.
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

ByTommy TrenchardJun 24, 2025
Stretching from Angola’s Atlantic coast to central Africa, the Lobito Corridor is now a key rail route in the global scramble for critical minerals
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