Geographical Contributors


The Kordofan giraffe is smaller than other giraffe subspecies

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

Apr 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
Photographs, candles and messages in Valletta, demanding justice for the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

Review: A Sunny Place For Shady People by Ryan Murdock

Apr 9, 2024
Travel writer and RGS fellow Ryan Murdock delivers a depressing but thought-provoking on one of the most corrupt places in the world
The quiet backwater of Dali in Yunnan province, China

Review: The Mountains are High by Alec Ash

Mar 29, 2024
Alec Ash recounts finding a peaceful escape from modern life in rural china
A hiking bag sits on cliffs

Equipment matters: kit for multi-day hikes

Mar 28, 2024
Tristan Kennedy believes to make a multi-day hike a success, it is all in the planning
Immune cells in the brain, microglia, are damaged by heat stress

Climate change is radically affecting our brain health

Mar 26, 2024
Neuroscientist turned environmental journalist Clayton Aldern reports an unreported crisis in neurological health linked to climate chang
The Three Pagodas of Chongsheng Temple on the outskirts of Dali Old Town

Finding a Shangri-la in modern China

Mar 20, 2024
Alec Ash on why he, and many others, are opting out of the rat race of modern China to find a Shangri-la in a rural backwater
A pair of Andean condors soars high over the mountains

Saving Ecuador’s threatened condors

Mar 18, 2024
Mark Stratton visits a long-term project to safeguard the world’s largest bird of prey, the Andean condor
The Nepalese dispute China’s assertion that Pokhara Airport forms part of the BRI

Geopolitics, not economic development, drives China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Mar 13, 2024
Andrew Ross on why a decade on from its inception, the BRI is failing the countries that could have benefited from it most
Marauiá mountain range. Yanomami Indigenous Territory, state of Amazonas, Brazil, 2018

Sebastião Salgado talks about ‘the light inside’

Mar 7, 2024
Graeme Green interviews Sebastião Salgado who explains how his passion for the natural world rekindled his love for his art
man using binoculars looking up watching for birds

Equipment matters: The joys of birdwatching

Mar 5, 2024
Birdwatching adds an extra layer of enjoyment to almost any outdoor pursuit – especially if you use a phone app
Villagers make a bamboo raft to transport goods to other villages

Squatters in their own land – the Orang Asli of Malaysia

Feb 16, 2024
The Orang Asli tribe of Peninsular Malaysia, faced with increasing demand for land over which they have few rights, are struggling to maintain their traditional way of life
A guy stands on the beach holding a surfboard in the cold next to snowy-mountains

Equipment matters: Winter surfing

Feb 12, 2024
February surfing might be counterintuitive, but if you’ve got the right gear, it guarantees good waves
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