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QUIZ: Geography Trivia

Entire nation declared a single UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Entire nation declared a single UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Depopulation is reshaping Japan’s countryside and threatening biodiversity

Depopulation is reshaping Japan’s countryside and threatening biodiversity

QUIZ: What River Am I?

QUIZ: What River Am I?

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QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard
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QUIZ: Flags of the World – Hard

How well do you know your flags? From bold stripes to curious colours, flags reveal a lot about a country’s…

QUIZ: Geography Trivia
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QUIZ: Geography Trivia

Test your global smarts with this random mix of geographical brain-teasers from every corner of the map. Good luck!

QUIZ: Capital Cities – Europe
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QUIZ: Capital Cities – Europe

How well do you know Europe’s capitals? Put your geography skills to the test with this quiz on the political…

QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Papua New Guinea
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QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Papua New Guinea

Test your knowledge of Papua New Guinea, a country rich in cultures, languages, and dramatic landscapes. Good luck!

QUIZ: Forgotten Countries
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QUIZ: Forgotten Countries

Think you know your world map? Test your knowledge of countries that have changed names, identities or simply slipped off…

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Aerial drone view of seagrass meadows and headlands in the World Heritage Listed Shark Bay Conservation Area.
Climate Change

Geo Explainer: Why seagrass helps combat climate change

Seagrass boasts a range of climate-change-fighting qualities, but must be conserved to be utilised in the future.
Geo Explainer: What are the Northern Lights?
Science & Environment

Geo Explainer: What are the Northern Lights?

The northern lights are an awe-inspiring phenomenon on Earth, find out what causes them and the history of their prominence throughout time.
Sunset in Dubai UAE
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: How are deserts formed?

Covering around 20% of the Earth’s surface, deserts are vast & harsh landscapes. From the Sahara to the Arctic, we delve into their formation
Karangetang Volcano at Siau Island
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: What is the ring of fire?

The Ring of Fire is the site of many of the most powerful and destructive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes in history.
Geo explainer: What causes heatwaves?
Science & Environment

Geo explainer: What causes heatwaves?

What exactly is a heatwave, when and why do they happen, and how is climate change having an impact on them?

Worldview – opinion, comment & campaigns

Is COP29 at a dead end?

Is COP29 at a dead end?

Geographical’s climate columnist Marco Magrini fears that COP29 has nowhere to go as the planet continues to warm
UN peace keeping troops in Indonesia

Has the United Nations become a retired superhero?

Tim Marshall argues that despite its many flaws, the United Nations does far more good than harm across the world.
London, UK. 22nd June 2024. Environmental protesters with banner at the Restore Nature Now protest demonstration in London, calling for urgent political action on the nature and climate emergencies.

Can we learn from environmental protests – then and now?

Andrew Brooks asks whether the lessons learned from a mass 1930s trespass should be applied to today’s environmental protests.
Why it is so important that the USA and China can talk to each other

Why it is so important that the USA and China can talk to each other

Tim Marshall on the importance of USA and China relations during a world crisis – and what communication links the countries have.
Truck working in landfill with birds looking for food

Can microbes save us from plastic pollution?

Robin Hanbury-Tenison on solving the plastics problem across the globe before we all end up as waste product

Discovering Britain

Walking on water via one of London’s hidden rivers

Walking on water via one of London’s hidden rivers

Drought reveals the Lake District’s flooded village of Mardale Green

Drought reveals the Lake District’s flooded village of Mardale Green

The living legend of Sherwood Forest

The living legend of Sherwood Forest

Surf’s up: discovering the secrets of Widemouth Bay

Surf’s up: discovering the secrets of Widemouth Bay

Exploring birdlife on the Calf of Man

Exploring birdlife on the Calf of Man

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Long reads

Protesters at the route of the Tren Maya being carved through the jungle

Mexico’s cenotes at risk from new train line

3d topographic map of Rwanda

Country profile: Rwanda

Conservation measures in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands have done much to improve hyacinth macaw populations

Study reveals conservation’s positive impact on biodiversity worldwide

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?

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Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

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