September 23


Helen Scales: An ocean of opportunity

Helen Scales: An ocean of opportunity

ByBryony CottamSep 21, 2023

Helen Scales talks about her latest book, Around the Ocean in 80 Fish & Other Sea Life, the blue economy…

Else Bostelmann’s illustration of a black swallower fish

Review: The Bathysphere Book by Brad Fox

Brad Fox documents the first deep sea explorations and explores how nature works in this deep and intoxicating book featuring…

Rupert Grey

Writer’s reads: Rupert Grey

ByGeographical StaffSep 16, 2023

Libel layer turned photographer, Rupert Grey, selects from his library some of his favourite and formative reads. Ruperts latest book,…

A river running through a leafy green rocky canyon

Where in the world is home to 18 World Heritage sites?

ByGeo QuizmasterSep 14, 2023

Can you identify this country using the following clues? • It has a land area of just over 130,000 square…

An Atlantic salmon leaps upstream on its way to its spawning grounds

A new lease of life for the River Trent

An ambitious scheme is bringing life back to the heavily industrialised River Trent Salmon used to be plentiful in the…

Boats crowd the waters around the Sadarghat or city wharf in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Review: Homage to Bangladesh by Rupert Grey

Rupert Grey tells the story of Bangladesh with his stunning images Rupert Grey is an amazing man and this is…

Time to rethink our view of tropical islands

Time to rethink our view of tropical islands

ByBryony CottamSep 11, 2023

Professor of island studies Jonathan Pugh on how our understanding of tropical islands is changing PASSPORT In the Western imagination,…

The radar mast dominates the Lincolnshire flatlands

Lincolnshire’s silent sentry near RAF Stenigot

ByRory WalshSep 11, 2023

Rory Walsh visits a Lincolnshire landmark that shaped the sky and once provided radar for RAF Stenigot View • Rural…

Amir Timur or Tamerlane monument in Samarkand city, Uzbekistan

Review: Empires of the Steppes by Kenneth W. Harl

Kenneth W. Harl explores the fascinating history and legacy of the nomadic tribes of Central Asia, illuminating specific figures like…

Sharyn and Tom Wotton (aka Swampy Tom), Wandella, New South Wales, Australia, January 2020 (from the series Portraits in Ashes)

Gideon Mendel: Portraits of devastation

ByGeographical StaffSep 8, 2023

South African born ‘struggle photographer’ Gideon Mendel hauntingly captures the aftermath of fires and floods around the world It began…

A map showing heatwaves across europe and north africa in summer 2023

2023 Europe heatwave showed off the charts climate anomalies

ByMarco MagriniSep 7, 2023

Marco Magrini warns that we shouldn’t assume that dramatic change can’t suddenly happen Off the charts’ is the appropriate phrase.…

An ice-coring field camp on the Greenland ice sheet, ten kilometres from Summit Station

Science at the Summit – the research centre high on Greenland’s ice sheet

At the apex of the Greenland ice sheet, a community of 41 scientists and support staff carry out cutting-edge research…

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