Geographical

Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Logan Gourlay

Not just climate: the threats combining to destroy our planet

4 minutes

Marco Magrini argues we’re not facing multiple crises – just a single, dangerously interlinked emergency There’s much more than climate change. Every year, according to a recent study, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of plastics end up in European and North American farmland. Reduced to millimetres, microns or even nanometres, fragments of plastic have been found in … [Read more...] about Not just climate: the threats combining to destroy our planet

Quintin Lake: on foot around Britain’s coast

3 minutes

In 2015, photographer Quintin Lake set out to walk the entire mainland coast of Britain – an 11,000-kilometre odyssey that would take five years. His new book, The Perimeter, captures the raw beauty and quiet drama of the ever-shifting edge where land meets sea In April 2015, photographer Quintin Lake embarked on a five-year journey to walk the entire coast of mainland … [Read more...] about Quintin Lake: on foot around Britain’s coast

Greenwashing gives way to green-fading

4 minutes

Marco Magrini fears the consequences of much of the corporate world turning its back on carbon reduction commitments It is quite worrying, the future of the world. We need to appeal to the people and educate them to sort of revolt against this and to fight the propaganda of the fossil fuel industry, which is unrelenting and enormous.’ Thus spoke, in 2016, the CEO of a … [Read more...] about Greenwashing gives way to green-fading

Africa battles the storm with green defences

4 minutes

Across sub-Saharan Africa, cities are embracing nature-based solutions to climate change. A World Bank report reveals the keys to their success  In the night of 14 March, 2019, Cyclone Idai made landfall in Beira, the capital of Mozambique. Winds of up to 230 kilometres per hour tore through buildings and flattened neighbourhoods, and storm surges more than four metres … [Read more...] about Africa battles the storm with green defences

What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

4 minutes

Marco Magrini ponders the impact on tackling the climate crisis if Trump regains the presidency Political elections shape the destiny of a country, sometimes of an entire region. But none can influence the fate of the entire world more than the US presidential election. The raison d’être of this column is that there is a climate crisis underway. It’s a crisis because it … [Read more...] about What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?