Tom Hart
Howard Wood
Jul 06, 2015
Published in
I’m a Geographer
Wood took up diving as a hobby, but soon found the Isle of Arran’s once abundant waters depleted through overfishing. He won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe in recognition of COAST, which he co-founded to protect Arran’s waters
Tragic routes
Jul 04, 2015
Published in
Development
Guadeloupe opens a centre dedicated to the memory of the slave trade
Spray days
Jul 19, 2015
Published in
Development
Colombia’s anti-coca crop spraying programme has been suspended – for the time being at least
The geography of homelessness
Jun 26, 2015
Published in
Cities
The real homelessness problem may be in the North and not London, but much depends on definitions
Finland’s vanishing rural population
Jun 26, 2015
Published in
Cultures
Finland is one of the OECD’s most rural countries, but the rural population is ageing fast and one-by-one the country’s villages are shrinking away
Britain’s Antarctic future
Jun 24, 2015
Published in
Polar
Geographical talks to Jane Francis, director of the British Antarctic Survey, about the organisation’s future plans for exploration
Australia: no way
Jun 20, 2015
Published in
Refugees
Australia has met asylum seekers trying to reach the country by boat with a simple ‘No’. As the EU struggles with a similar problem, Geographical looks at Australia’s policies
Libya’s fragmented politics
Jun 20, 2015
Published in
Refugees
With up to 500,000 refugees in the country, many hoping to make the hazardous journey across the Mediterranean, Geographical looks at Libya’s politics
Where are Syria's refugees in Europe?
Jun 20, 2015
Published in
Refugees
An estimated nine million Syrians have fled their homes since March 2011. Around 150,000 have sought asylum within the European Union
Katrina: A decade later
Jun 11, 2015
Published in
Climate
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina killed at least 1,500 people and caused $300billion in damage to the south-east US, Geographical examines the potential for future storms and what has been done to prepare New Orleans for a similar event
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