For five decades, the RGS Explore Weekend has helped turn ambitious ideas into viable expeditions. Diana Maclean traces the event's evolution and asks what exploration is for today
As global conflicts multiply and international institutions weaken, renewed diplomacy, mediation and cooperation offer a vital path towards lasting peace
Created at extraordinary speed from political necessity, cultural diversity and global commerce, Singapore embodies many of the defining tensions of the modern age
Chinook salmon have sustained communities along Alaska’s Yukon River for millennia. Tom Parfitt reports on a collapse that’s threatening both livelihoods and culture