Geographical

Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Graeme Gourlay

Better World Video Awards 2025: Alladale Wilderness Reserve

2 minutes

Transforming a 100 sq km of the Scottish Highlands The Alladale Wilderness Reserve, in the Scottish Highlands, has transitioned over twenty years from a sporting estate to a nature reserve focused on rewilding and conservation. It has involved planting a million native saplings to restore forests and rewetting over one thousand hectares of degraded peatland to lock in … [Read more...] about Better World Video Awards 2025: Alladale Wilderness Reserve

Better World Video Awards 2025: Derby High School International Changemakers

2 minutes

A school trip to Thailand that changed lives The story of an inspirational trip Southern Thailand for teenagers at Derby High School. The headteacher of Derby High School, Lynn Provoost  talks about the trip:  'We Are The Derby High’s International Changemakers! We’ve returned from a life-changing journey to Southern Thailand, where we partnered with local … [Read more...] about Better World Video Awards 2025: Derby High School International Changemakers

Better World Video Awards 2025: Return

3 minutes

The compelling story of how the white-tailed eagle returned to the UK  In 1918 the last white-tailed eagle in the UK was shot and killed. Return is a new RSPB film that celebrates one of the greatest comeback stories in UK nature, seen through the eyes of those who made it happen. Find out how a group of dedicated conservationists brought the white-tailed eagle back – … [Read more...] about Better World Video Awards 2025: Return

Digital cartography on trial: Mexico sues Google for ‘Gulf of America’ label

4 minutes

Google’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico for US users has triggered diplomatic outrage, legal action from Mexico, and a global debate over who controls the world’s digital maps Beneath the sun-bleached skies of the Caribbean, where the Atlantic’s azure waters merge with the Gulf of Mexico’s warmer currents, a modern geopolitical drama continues to unfold. This body of … [Read more...] about Digital cartography on trial: Mexico sues Google for ‘Gulf of America’ label

Don’t care about the Arctic because it’s empty and distant – care because it’s busy and close

3 minutes

An Arctic resident's view of the row about Camilla Hempleman-Adams' trek across Baffin Island In his book So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson describes the internet waking up each day and selecting one person on whom to focus its collective, latent rage. Recently, that 'person of the day' was British adventurer Camilla Hempleman-Adams, who completed a 241 km … [Read more...] about Don’t care about the Arctic because it’s empty and distant – care because it’s busy and close