Geographical
Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Opinion
Does comparing tackling climate change to the space race make any sense?
Andrew Brooks on why comparisons between the space race and the global environmental crisis are both misleading and counter-productive To…
The sci-fi world of climate change
Marco Magrini on the lessons to be learned from a dystopian climate novel Next year, in late spring 2025, a combination…
Geopolitics: poverty on the rise in the global south
Tim Marshall considers what the first increases in global poverty in decades could mean for a fragile world order What…
Geopolitics: Is the post-Cold War holiday over?
Tim Marshall considers the impact of the Polish prime minister’s warning that we are now in a pre-war era Poland’s…
African hospitals are not stuck in the past, they’re struggling in the present
Andrew Brooks examines the false comparisons that distort our understanding of developing countries and their healthcare Hospitals are worse in…
Doors are closing on solutions, argues the Climate Crisis Advisory Group
The four Rs – reduce, resilience, repair & remove – are now considered to be the keys to tackling the…
Fires, forest and our lands – an Indigenous ecological perspective
Western science has a lot to learn from Indigenous perspectives on how to manage fire says Hillary Renick, President of…
Climatewatch: The politics of net zero needs to move as fast as the technology changes
Marco Magrini points out that climate technology is racing ahead of climate politics in finding much-needed solutions Imagine an alien…
Geopolitics: Modi heading for a third term
Tim Marshall looks to the Indian elections, in which more than 900 million people are eligible to vote India’s national…
Food for thought: feeding the world accounts for a third of human-made carbon emissions
For Marco Magrini the agricultural transition is as important and urgent as the energy transition When pondering the trouble with…
Geopolitics, not economic development, drives China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Andrew Ross on why a decade on from its inception, the BRI is failing the countries that could have benefited…
Geopolitics: Russia’s elections, where there is no doubt who the winner will be
Within Russia, ethnic minorities are disproportionately suffering the consequences of the war in Ukraine. But Tim Marshall reports this is…
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