People - Geographical Magazine

Cultures

Changthang plateau and India’s cashmere crisis

May 20, 2022

Written by Andrew Newey

Photographer Andrew Newey visits the world’s highest permanently inhabited plateau, where farmers produce pashmina wool – a high-end product now under threat

Afghan women in India call on governments to offer them sanctuary

Refugees

The Taliban's takeover triggered a refugee exodus – but where will they go?

Apr 28, 2022

Written by Jacob Dykes

The Taliban’s recent takeover of Afghanistan prompted a new refugee crisis, highlighting how nations differ in the numbers of people they’re willing to re-home

I’m a Geographer

I'm a Geographer: Rose Abramoff, soil scientist and climate activist

Apr 20, 2022

Written by Bryony Cottam

Rose Abramoff is a climate scientist who recently made headlines while participating in climate protests led by Scientist Rebellion. Geographical caught up with her to talk about activism, education and the importance of soil

Development

Dossier: The future of aid

Mar 25, 2022

Written by Mark Rowe

Mark Rowe reflects on the changing nature of overseas aid and asks what it could and should look like in a world facing the same old challenges, combined with new threats

Several rickshaws are parked next to the rooms where the pullers sleep on the dera of Ramdeni Sharma, vice president of the All Bengal Rickshaw Union

Cultures

The last rickshaw-pullers of Kolkata

Mar 10, 2022

Written by Words by Laura Fornell, pictures by Oscar Espinosa

The end of human-powered rickshaws has long been predicted in the crowded city of Kolkata, the day may finally be coming when it actually happens

The stern of Endurance with the name plate clearly visible. Image: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust

Explorers

Wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance found

Mar 09, 2022

Written by Mark Russell

The wreck of Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition ship, has been found 107 years after it sank in Weddell Sea pack ice

People

Obituary: Sir Crispin Tickell, diplomat, academic and former president of the Royal Geographical Society

Feb 23, 2022

Written by Geographical

Sir Crispin Tickell, who has died of pneumonia aged 91, was president of the Royal Geographical Society from 1990-93

Naturalist David Lindo talks urban wildlife on a boat trip along the Thames in London

Cultures

On class, ethnicity and the natural world: 'Nature means something different to every one of us'

Feb 09, 2022

Written by Faizal Farook

Faizal Farook investigates the relationship between Britain’s diverse ethnic-minority communities and the country’s natural spaces

Cultures

Canada's Indigenous People are using art to confront the country's legacy of abuse

Jan 20, 2022

Written by Hadani Ditmars

Following the shocking discovery of thousands of unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada, the country’s Indigenous people are using art to find truth and reconciliation

Workers build a semipermeable sea dam from bamboo poles and brushwood

Development

Adapt to survive: the places on the front line of climate change

Jan 12, 2022

Written by Bryony Cottam

While the world debates the best ways to reduce emissions and hold global temperature rise below 2°C, the heat is already on for countries facing the greatest threats from climate change.

A Saddhu (Hindu holyman) on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi

Cultures

The Ganges – river of life, religion and waste

Jan 07, 2022

Written by Stuart Butler

The Ganges is one of the most polluted rivers on Earth, but such is its religious importance that there are those willing to make enormous sacrifices to see that it’s cleaned up

Cultures

Inside Thailand's first caviar farm

Jan 04, 2022

Written by Words by Ron Gluckman, Images by Luke Duggleby

A new caviar-production venture could transform Thailand into a major source of the highly prized foodstuff

Sao Paulo, Brazil - 3 June 2018: Revelers fill the streets holding a giant rainbow flag during the annual gay pride parade

People

Sexuality and the city: the changing geography of LGBTQ spaces

Dec 17, 2021

Written by Katie Burton

In cities around the world, the geography of homosexuality is shifting. As historic bars and clubs close down, or where they never existed, queer people are finding other ways to gather

In Morocco, the grand taxis used to ferry people long distances are painted a region-specific colour. In Essaouira, they are all bright blue

Cultures

The fading days of Morocco's Grand Taxis

Dec 17, 2021

Written by Words: John Silcox Images: Sam Christmas

In Morocco, people don’t Uber. Instead, they pile into so-called grand taxis – battered but colourful old diesel Mercedes cars. These ancient vehicles, which the government is trying to force off the streets, tell a wider story about the suffocating…

Sunlight bears down on the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, where a plan to restore native oyster reefs is underway

Development

Restoring the oyster reefs of old to protect English waters

Dec 16, 2021

Written by Jacob Dykes

Oysters play a hugely important role in ecosystems by filtering water and providing habitat for other creatures, but overfishing has decimated their populations. Jacob Dykes visits an ambitious project to restore oyster reefs in Essex waters