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A local farmer sprays the herbicide Roundup among the oil palms in the small plot of land she and her family owns. She also routinely sprays Gramoxone, without protection

Paraquat: banned in Europe, on sale in Indonesia

ByGeographical ContributorJun 28, 2024
The dangerous pesticides destroying the lives of palm oil plantation workers in Borneo
One of the many narrow gullies on the island known as chines

Isle of Wight: From Victorian Seaside to Eco-Conscious Paradise?

ByMark RoweJun 20, 2024
Long known as a bucket-and-spade destination steeped in Victoriana, the Isle of Wight is looking to the future with environmental tourism
A poignant drawing by a child at a nursery situated in Varanasi’s red light district

The dark side to India’s City of Light: people trafficking in Varanasi

ByStuart ButlerJun 7, 2024
A charity trying to help those often kidnapped young women forced into prostitution in India's holiest city
Nenquimo at home in the forest that she loves

Nemonte Nenquimo: ‘I’m fighting for the land I love’

ByGeographical ContributorMay 30, 2024

Indigenous leader and environmental activist Nemonte Nenquimo successfully fought the Ecuadorian government to protect her Amazon home from oil drilling.…

A humpback whale feeding, South Shetland Islands

How Antarctica could be a template for how we treat the natural world

ByGeographical ContributorMay 23, 2024
Academic and conservationist Paul Jepson joins the growing number of tourists visiting Antarctica and proposes a radical manifesto for its future
A preliminary map of Mount Everest constructed at the Royal Geographical Society from photographs and sketches made by the expedition of 1921. The red dots show the sites of the stations from which expedition member Charles Howard-Bury used a Kodak Panoram camera to create a series of panoramic photographs

The mapping of Mount Everest

ByGeographical ContributorMay 21, 2024

New and innovative techniques were used to produce detailed and beautiful maps of the region around Everest prior to attempts…

A snow leopard moves silently through the winter snow

On the trail of the elusive snow leopard

ByStuart ButlerMay 9, 2024
Snow leopards are rarely seen but much sought. Stuart Butler joins those on the trail of the big cat that stalks the high peaks of Ladakh
Gas flaring in Russia. Oil and gas production is the second-largest source of anthropogenic methane

Tackling methane could have a big and quick impact on climate change

ByMark RoweMay 1, 2024
We need some quick wins to limit the impacts of climate change. Targeting methane, the second most potent greenhouse gas, could buy us time while we get our act together to cut CO2
Harvesting rooibos in South Africa’s Cederberg Mountains

Sharing the revenue from South Africa’s roobios tea with the indigenous Khoisan people

ByTommy TrenchardApr 25, 2024
South Africa’s Khoisan people have long been marginalised and landless. But now, an historic benefit-sharing agreement for the money generated by rooibos is offering a step in the right direction
Families arrive in South Sudan carrying everything they can. The surge of arrivals is putting further strain on an already overburdened health system. There’s an estimated ratio of one physician for every 65,574 people in the country and 9.4 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection.

Refugees from Sudan’s bitter civil war are stretching the aid agencies to breaking point

ByGeographical StaffApr 17, 2024

Photographer Peter Caton has been in the region in recent months, documenting conditions and the stories of those arriving At…

The Kordofan giraffe is smaller than other giraffe subspecies

Giraffes are facing extinction – but one species is bucking the trend

ByGeographical ContributorApr 10, 2024
Across Africa, giraffe populations are declining at an alarming rate. However, in Chad’s Zakouma National Park, which is now a sanctuary for wildlife, one giraffe subspecies is bucking the trend
With more than five million tombs, the cemetery at Najaf is the world’s largest. This young man is selling garlands and perfumed water for mourners to decorate tombs

Are you ready to visit Iraq?

ByStuart ButlerApr 2, 2024
Stuart Butler flew to Baghdad to check out reports of the start of a new tourism industry in Iraq
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