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Official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

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QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Slovakia

QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Slovakia

Unpacking Putin’s gangster state with Tim Marshall

Unpacking Putin’s gangster state with Tim Marshall

The troubled waters of NOAA

The troubled waters of NOAA

Africa’s nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

Africa’s nature-based solutions to tackle climate change

The new world of global trade taking shape despite tariff brinkmanship

The new world of global trade taking shape despite tariff brinkmanship

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Opinion

The novel The Ministry of the Future starts with record temperatures in India

The sci-fi world of climate change

Marco Magrini on the lessons to be learned from a dystopian climate novel
The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting logo

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
Concept art of toy soilders standing around Ukraine and surrounding area on world map

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 
Concept art of the earth plugged into digital wiring and techonology

We ask AI to explain why we struggle with solving the climate crisis

Marco Magrini asks a sophisticated AI model why we are failing to tackle climate change
Concept art of spaceman playing basketball with earth

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
The novel The Ministry of the Future starts with record temperatures in India

The sci-fi world of climate change

Marco Magrini on the lessons to be learned from a dystopian climate novel
The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting logo

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
Concept art of toy soilders standing around Ukraine and surrounding area on world map

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 
Concept art of the earth plugged into digital wiring and techonology

We ask AI to explain why we struggle with solving the climate crisis

Marco Magrini asks a sophisticated AI model why we are failing to tackle climate change
Concept art of spaceman playing basketball with earth

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
The novel The Ministry of the Future starts with record temperatures in India

The sci-fi world of climate change

Marco Magrini on the lessons to be learned from a dystopian climate novel
The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting logo

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
Concept art of toy soilders standing around Ukraine and surrounding area on world map

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 

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QUIZ: Flags of the World
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QUIZ: Flags of the World

Test your knowledge with our exciting flags quiz. Can you score 75% or higher? Join the challenge today!
QUIZ: US State Shapes
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QUIZ: US State Shapes

Challenge yourself with our US states quiz and see how well you know each state’s shape. Test your knowledge today!
QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Sri Lanka
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QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Sri Lanka

Challenge your knowledge with a fun Sri Lanka quiz. Discover interesting facts about this beautiful island’s geography.
QUIZ: Physical Geography Trivia
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QUIZ: Physical Geography Trivia

Test your knowledge with our physical geography quiz. Challenge yourself on landscapes, climates, and natural wonders.
QUIZ: Flags of the World
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QUIZ: Flags of the World

Challenge yourself with our flags quiz and see if you can score 75% or higher. Are you ready to test your knowledge?

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Science & Environment

Phenomena: The Eye of the Sahara

A geological marvel in the middle of the Sahara desert caused by erosion you can see from space
Geo Explainer: What is COP?
Climate Change

Geo Explainer: What is COP?

From COP1 to COP28 make sure you know the basics of the world’s biggest climate conference What is COP? COP…

Geo Explainer: The many Chinas
Culture

Geo Explainer: The many Chinas

A primer to the physical and cultural diversity of the second-most populous country in the world
A view of Gaza Strip in Palestine
Geopolitics

Geo Explainer: The Gaza Strip

A detailed map of the most densely inhabited and controversial strip of land in the world
Hurricane Katrina 2005
Science & Environment

Geo Explainer: Are hurricanes getting worse?

Records leave us with a sense that hurricanes are getting more frequent, stronger, scarier. But is that the case?

Book reviews

Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s search for a magical charm, by Sally Huband
The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica, by David J Drewry
Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown, by Benedict Allen
Home Waters: Discovering the Submerged Science of Britain’s Coast, by David Bowers
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains, by Anna Fleming
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation, by Leon McCarron
The Biodiversity Gardener: Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World, by Paul Sterry
The Future of Geography: How Politics in Space will Change Our World, by Tim Marshall
The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis, by Tim Smedley
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World, by Pico Iyer
The Explorer and the Journalist: Frederick Cook, Philip Gibbs and the Scandal that Shocked the World, by Richard Evans
Flying Green: On the New Frontiers of Aviation, by Christopher de Bellaigue
Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s search for a magical charm, by Sally Huband
The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica, by David J Drewry
Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown, by Benedict Allen
Home Waters: Discovering the Submerged Science of Britain’s Coast, by David Bowers
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains, by Anna Fleming
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation, by Leon McCarron
The Biodiversity Gardener: Establishing a Legacy for the Natural World, by Paul Sterry
The Future of Geography: How Politics in Space will Change Our World, by Tim Marshall
The Last Drop: Solving the World’s Water Crisis, by Tim Smedley
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World, by Pico Iyer
The Explorer and the Journalist: Frederick Cook, Philip Gibbs and the Scandal that Shocked the World, by Richard Evans
Flying Green: On the New Frontiers of Aviation, by Christopher de Bellaigue
Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s search for a magical charm, by Sally Huband
The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica, by David J Drewry
Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown, by Benedict Allen
Home Waters: Discovering the Submerged Science of Britain’s Coast, by David Bowers
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains, by Anna Fleming
Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation, by Leon McCarron

Discovering Britain

The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

Glen Roy: the high road and the low road

The view of Robin Hood’s Bay from Ravenscar

Discovering Britain: Ravenscar, the holiday resort that never got built

The radar mast dominates the Lincolnshire flatlands

Lincolnshire’s silent sentry near RAF Stenigot

Sunset at Bedruthan Steps, Carnewas

Discovering Britain: Fistral Beach

Wye crown on the side of the hill in Wye, Kent

King of the hill: the Wye crown

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Long reads

A local farmer sprays the herbicide Roundup among the oil palms in the small plot of land she and her family owns. She also routinely sprays Gramoxone, without protection

Paraquat: banned in Europe, on sale in Indonesia

One of the many narrow gullies on the island known as chines

Isle of Wight: From Victorian Seaside to Eco-Conscious Paradise?

A poignant drawing by a child at a nursery situated in Varanasi’s red light district

The dark side to India’s City of Light: people trafficking in Varanasi

Nenquimo at home in the forest that she loves

Nemonte Nenquimo: ‘I’m fighting for the land I love’

A humpback whale feeding, South Shetland Islands

How Antarctica could be a template for how we treat the natural world

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