Katie Burton

Against the advice of, well, pretty much everyone, Katie Burton left a lucrative career in corporate law to pursue her dream of working in environmental journalism. Having completed a Master's degree in magazine journalism at City University, she joined Geographical in 2018 as production editor and then staff writer. She took over as editor in 2020 but still enjoys writing features when she's not editing other people's.


Peru Andes

Rolex announces its 2023 laureates, dedicated to protecting the planet

Feb 28, 2024
The five winners of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise will now receive funding to implement their pioneering projects
anaconda with open mouth

Legless wonders: why snakes are one of evolution’s great success stories

Feb 26, 2024
New research is uncovering how and why snakes diversified so rapidly and successfully
How lack of volcanic activity turned Earth into a gigantic snowball

How lack of volcanic activity turned Earth into a gigantic snowball

Feb 20, 2024
A new study links an all-time low in volcanic carbon dioxide emissions to the 57-million-year-long global 'Sturtian' ice age
An unknown patch of land, teeming with stories and the local book cover by alastair humphries

Review: Local – a search for nearby nature and wildness

Feb 20, 2024
Alastair Humphreys finds wonder in the area he calls home and explains we all have a local area worth exploring
At a protest in London on 19 October 2021 people hold signs and wave the Tigrayan flag outside 10 Downing Street

Tigray: the war the world forgot

Jan 11, 2024

The war that devastated Tigray between November 2020 and 2023 may be officially over, but war crimes are still taking…

Audrey Osler, author of Where are you from? in a garden

Review: Where Are You From? by Audrey Osler

Dec 20, 2023
Audrey Osler reflects on her own heritage and the question that people of colour in the UK are all too familiar with
A nurse’s aide checks Arop Alore in the MSF-run hospital in Abyei

Abyei: A land stuck in the middle

Dec 7, 2023
In Abyei, a land sandwiched between Sudan and South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières are working hard to bring life-saving treatment to desperate communities 
Geo Explainer: What is COP?

Geo Explainer: What is COP?

Dec 4, 2023

From COP1 to COP28 make sure you know the basics of the world’s biggest climate conference What is COP? COP…

Black solider flies

Environmental Photographer of the Year 2023 winning images revealed

Nov 28, 2023
Environmental Photographer of the Year 2023 winning images revealed
Jay and mark in the office mapmen

Map Men: where comedy meets geography

Nov 22, 2023
The founders and stars of the phenomenally popular YouTube series Map Men discuss their unique blend of comedy and cartography
Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

Jan 16, 2023
Thomas Halliday's Otherlands takes us on an immersive tour of bizarre prehistoric lands and helps to ease our minds into the depths of our history
Adin beach Turkey

The rise of halal tourism

Aug 13, 2022
With the market for Muslim travellers growing at pace, holiday-makers and travellers are broadening their horizons
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