Geographical Contributors


A wildfire up close

How French media is reshaping its coverage of extreme weather

Aug 20, 2025

Doug Specht examines the marked change in how French media are reporting on extreme weather within the country This summer,…

Gaza

Peace must not wait – civil leaders in Israel and Palestine call for an end to war

Aug 15, 2025

Despite overwhelming violence and despair, civil society leaders across Israel and Palestine are working together to demand a lasting peace…

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

Aug 7, 2025
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
Writer’s Reads: Shafik Meghji

Writer’s Reads: Shafik Meghji

Aug 7, 2025

Journalist, travel writer and author Shafik Meghji recommends some of his favourite reads. His latest book, Small Earthquakes, is out…

Artwork of Russian flag and stocks and stacks of money

Russian sanctions backfire as Putin profits from war economy

Aug 4, 2025
Designed to topple a regime, sanctions have helped build a fortress economy where loyalty is rewarded and dissent crushed – consolidating Putin’s power.Antonio Graceffo reports
We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

We need a Global Climate Club – and we need it now

Jul 10, 2025
Patrick Brown lays out a vision for a Global Climate Club – and why the world can no longer afford to wait for the USA to catch up
Desperate children plead for food in Gaza

UK Report Warns Humanitarian Law Is Being ‘Hollowed Out’ Amid Rising Global Crises

Jun 13, 2025

Cuts to aid and politicisation of relief undermine safety, access, and accountability in conflict zones The International Development Committee’s latest…

Joey Apachee’s family stands in front of the house he started building for himself and his two children before his death. From left to right: Joe’s mother, Virginia Apachee, daughter, Ashton, and son, Julian

Missing, murdered and forgotten: The Navajo families fight for justice

Jun 6, 2025
When Joey Apachee was killed in 2021, his family thought justice would follow. Instead, they joined hundreds of Indigenous families across the Navajo Nation battling a broken system, jurisdictional chaos and silence.
Concept art of a mushroom cloud from a nuclear explosion

Hope and memory in Hiroshima: A journey from Mount Fuji to global zero

May 30, 2025
Beneath the cherry blossoms of Hiroshima, memories of devastation linger — but so does hope. This exclusive extract from Six Minutes to Winter, Mark Lynas’s urgent new book on the threat of nuclear war, reflects on survival, remembrance and the future we must fight for
Deforestation in Glencoe

Scotland’s ecocide bill could set a global legal precedent

May 29, 2025
Scotland’s proposed ecocide law could make mass environmental destruction a crime – and serve as a model for international legal reform
Marauiá mountain range. Yanomami Indigenous Territory, state of Amazonas, Brazil, 2018

Remembering Sebastião Salgado

May 24, 2025
In this rare interview we ran last year, the late Brazilian photographer talks to Graeme Green about his life behind the lens
Glaciologist Ricardo Jaña of the Chilean Antarctica Institute, research chief at the Union Glacier Joint Scientific Polar Station

Life, science and climate urgency on Antarctica’s Union Glacier

May 22, 2025
James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future
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