September 2023
In the September issue of Geographical, we consider whether the world’s biggest coal producer can reach its ambitious carbon-reduction targets. Long vilified for its rainforest logging and palm oil plantations, Indonesia has finally committed to ditching fossil fuels – but conservationists are sceptical. Are these the first steps to a greener future, or is it business as usual?
We also hear about life at a research station on Greenland’s ice sheet, where Jean de Pomereu joins a community of scientists carrying out cutting-edge research; Jo Caird discovers an ambitious scheme to bring life back to the heavily industrialised River Trent; Bryony Cottam interviews marine biologist Helen Scales about our connection to the seas; and photojournalist Daniela Sala reveals the devastation the giant oil fields of southern Iraq have wrought on local communities.
