Geographical

Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Victoria Heath

After graduating from Warwick University in 2024 with a First Class BA (Hons) in English Literature and Creative Writing with a Study Year Abroad, Victoria now works as the Digital Editor for Geographical.

She loves to travel and regularly seeks out new adventures and experiences abroad and in the UK. Outside of journalism, Victoria is an avid creative writer and is currently working on her first novel.

Victoria is the published author of two books, and her work features in publications including Business Insider, DIVE Magazine, I Am BeYoutiful, as well as her Instagram @byvictoriaheath.

Forest industry. Wheel-mounted loader, timber grab. Felling of trees,cut trees , forest cutting area, forest protection concept. Lumberjack with modern harvester working in a forest.

Trump orders for increased logging in national forests

Apr 9, 2025
More than 50 per cent of US's previously-protected national forests now open to logging due to Trump executive order
Thermometer in green pharmacy screen sign displays extremely hot temperature of 42 degrees Celsius during heatwave in summer in Belgium

How ice melt and ‘double jet streams’ are making Europe hotter…

Apr 8, 2025
As Europe records its hottest-ever March, discover several reasons behind the continent's rising temperatures and its heatwaves...
How the world is using humour to deal with Trump & his tariffs

How the world is using humour to deal with Trump & his tariffs

Apr 7, 2025
A global phenomenon of humour - from cartoons to AI-generared songs - are being used to respond to Trump trade tariffs
Aerial Of Mine In Northern Ontario Canada In Autumn

Geo explainer: Why is cobalt mining so controversial?

Apr 7, 2025
Discover more about the practice of cobalt mining in the DRC & the vast repercussions such activities have...
Outstretched hands

The end of international development?

Apr 3, 2025
Andrew Brooks argues that long-term development aid was failing those it meant to help. But scrapping it without systemic changes will be disastrous
North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal on a satellite image taken in April 10, 2020

Tourist arrested after attempted contact with Sentinelese tribe

Apr 3, 2025
Most isolated Indigenous community in world, the Sentinelese, has lived in near-isolation for thousands of years
SIOUX CITY, IOWA, USA - NOVEMBER 6, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaking to his supporters at the “Make America Great Again” rally in the Sioux City Iowa convention center

How will Trump’s tariffs impact international trade?

Apr 3, 2025
Trump's announcement of tariffs hitting 180 countries has raised major questions over the future of global trade
People pass through the rising air pollution on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway. Gurgaon, Haryana, India. november 12, 2021

The fight for clean air around the world

Apr 2, 2025
From EV uptake to AI monitoring of New York's traffic, discover how air pollution is being tackled globally
Small tortoiseshell

2024 one of the worst years for UK butterflies on record

Apr 2, 2025
More than half of butterfly species across UK in long-term decline - but there are ways to help boost numbers
Mandalay,Myanmar 28 Mar 2025:A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has hit Myanmar, with a state of emergency declared and fears of mass casualties after tremors shook high-rise buildin

With USAID funding weakened, what countries are supporting Myanmar?

Apr 1, 2025
Amid the biggest natural disaster since Trump first announced USAID freezes, discover which countries are providing relief to Myanmar
BGS’s 1:50 000-scale geomorphology map of the seabed around Ascension Island.

New maps help conserve Ascension Island MPA

Apr 1, 2025
British Geological Survey maps are poised to aid conservation of one of the largest marine-protected areas in the world
Clostophis

New ‘microsnail’ species discovered in Cambodia

Mar 31, 2025
Tiny snail - measuring less than 2mm wide - with semi-transparent body found in karst limestone hills of western Cambodia
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