Geographical

Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

October 23

Dikson, a port town on the North Sea route, sits silently beneath the fading light of the aurora borealis during the Arctic winter. The town was once legendary among the polyarniks – carefully selected polar scientists – who were lured there by the romanticism of Arctic exploration

New book reveals the parts of remote Siberia stuck in time

ByGeographical StaffSep 29, 2023
Photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva, new book Hyperborea: Stories from the Arctic takes readers on a remarkable journey into remote Siberia
The Cambrian explosion saw a sudden, spectacular diversification of complex life in which virtually all major animal phyla began to appear in the fossil record

Review: Extinctions by Michael J Benton

ByMark RoweSep 28, 2023
A disturbingly uplifting but easily accessible read on the mass extinction events through history, and why they might be better than we realise
Taking fingerprints for biometric ID cards for access to aid in Somalia

Fears mount over NGOs gathering biometric data

ByBryony CottamSep 26, 2023
A reliance on biometric data in the humanitarian sector is on the rise, despite growing evidence of the risks
Making pierogi

Zuza Zak: Using cooking to tell stories about places and cultures

ByBryony CottamSep 25, 2023
Food writer Zuza Zak, who travels widely to research her books, talks to Bryony Cottam
An adult Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito species responsible for most malaria deaths

Could a new gene-editing technique be a major breakthrough in the battle against malaria?

ByBryony CottamSep 23, 2023
Progress on reducing malaria deaths stalled ten years ago. However, researchers are optimistic about a new way to eradicate deadly mosquitoes
The number of refugees has more than doubled in the past decade; in 2022 it stood at 32 million

Geopolitics: Migration truths

ByTim MarshallSep 22, 2023
Tim Marshall recounts Saudi Arabia’s shocking ‘solution’ to a refugee influx and argues there is only one real answer to this global problem
A rare centipede from the genus Eupolybothrus that lives in the soil

More than half the world’s biodiversity lives in our soil

ByBryony CottamSep 18, 2023
New research on soil biodiversity reveals that we've greatly underestimated the number of species that live underground
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