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20 May 2025Quintin Lake: on foot around Britain’s coast
Quintin’s drone selfie on Seathorne Beach, Lincolnshire, 2020 In 2015, photographer Quintin …

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QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia
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QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

Welcome to our Human Geography Quiz! This random selection of questions will test your knowledge of the people, places, and patterns shaping our world.

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Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

In Monsterland, Nicholas Jubber explores mythical creatures across continents – from UK legends to Japanese folklore – revealing how monsters mirror humanity’s deepest anxieties and cultural landscapes Monsters have always…

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

Poll reveals overwhelming public demand for a ban on destructive bottom trawling in UK marine protected areas, following graphic new footage from Attenborough’s new oceans documentary The new documentary Ocean…

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Rory Walsh crosses the Irish Sea to visit unique landforms shaped by water  View • Rural • Northern Ireland • Web Guide Although the Discovering Britain website was created to explore the…

Everest: climbing into crisis

A timeline of triumph, tragedy and traffic jams on the world’s highest peak Mount Everest’s enduring appeal, seven decades after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s pioneering ascent, has created a…

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QUIZ: Capital Cities
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QUIZ: Capital Cities

Grace GourlayMay 19, 20251 min read

Welcome to our capital cities quiz!

Concept art of chinese flag and stocks
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China: Debt, demographics and a manufacturing slowdown

Logan GourlayMay 16, 2025
QUIZ: Weather
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QUIZ: Weather

Grace GourlayMay 16, 2025
QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia
Quizzes

QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

Grace GourlayMay 14, 20251 min read

Welcome to our Human Geography Quiz! This random selection of questions will test your knowledge of the people, places, and patterns shaping our world.

Sessen Doji Offering His Life to an Ogre (Oni), circa 1764. Painted by Soga Shōhaku (1730–1781)

Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

Geographical ContributorMay 13, 20254 min read

In Monsterland, Nicholas Jubber explores mythical creatures across continents – from UK legends to Japanese folklore – revealing how monsters mirror humanity’s deepest anxieties and cultural landscapes Monsters have always…

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

Bryony CottamMay 13, 20253 min read

Poll reveals overwhelming public demand for a ban on destructive bottom trawling in UK marine protected areas, following graphic new footage from Attenborough’s new oceans documentary The new documentary Ocean…

Scrabo Tower, overlooking Strangford Lough

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Rory WalshMay 12, 20253 min read

Rory Walsh crosses the Irish Sea to visit unique landforms shaped by water  View • Rural • Northern Ireland • Web Guide Although the Discovering Britain website was created to explore the…

Everest: climbing into crisis

Everest: climbing into crisis

Graeme GourlayMay 12, 20255 min read

A timeline of triumph, tragedy and traffic jams on the world’s highest peak Mount Everest’s enduring appeal, seven decades after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s pioneering ascent, has created a…

QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia
Quizzes

QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

Grace GourlayMay 14, 20251 min read

Welcome to our Human Geography Quiz! This random selection of questions will test your knowledge of the people, places, and…

Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

Geographical ContributorMay 13, 2025

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

Bryony CottamMay 13, 2025

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Rory WalshMay 12, 2025

Everest: climbing into crisis

Graeme GourlayMay 12, 2025
QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

Welcome to our Human Geography Quiz! This random selection of questions will test your knowledge of the people, places, and patterns shaping our world.

Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Everest: climbing into crisis

Everest: climbing into crisis

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QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

QUIZ: Human Geography Trivia

Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

Review: Monsterland by Nicholas Jubber

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

UK against trawling in protected seas in wake of Attenborough film

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Discovering Britain: Strangford Loch

Everest: climbing into crisis

Everest: climbing into crisis

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Should our growing taste for avocados be a cause for concern?

Andrew Brooks on why our growing taste for avocados has complex consequences for international trade & global markets.
Concept art of the war in Ukraine

Will Putin fail and Ukraine prevail?

Tim Marshall considers the worrying fractures appearing in the European and American support of Ukraine
Comparisons can get in the way of geographical understanding

Comparisons can get in the way of geographical understanding

Andrew Brooks on how reductive comparisons can get in the way of true understanding
Visby, Gotland Island, Sweden

Is the Baltic Sea a ‘NATO lake’? Only if Gotland is a NATO island

Tim Marshall considers the strategic importance of a holiday island off the Swedish coast
What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

Marco Magrini considers the impact on tackling the climate crisis if Donald Trump wins the US election

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QUIZ: Glacial Landforms
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QUIZ: Glacial Landforms

Test your knowledge of glacial processes and discover how they shape our landscapes and create unique landforms.
QUIZ: Flags of the World
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QUIZ: Flags of the World

Test your knowledge with our flags quiz. Can you score 75% or more? Challenge yourself and find out now!
QUIZ: Physical Geography Trivia
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QUIZ: Physical Geography Trivia

Challenge yourself with our geography quiz. Test your knowledge of mountains, rivers, and natural wonders of the Earth.
QUIZ: River Deltas
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QUIZ: River Deltas

Explore the fascinating world of river delta formations and their ecological significance for nature and human life.
QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Uzbekistan
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QUIZ: Country Spotlight – Uzbekistan

Explore fascinating uzbekistan facts and uncover the rich history of this Central Asian gem along the Silk Road.

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Science & Environment

Geo Explainer: How are tsunamis detected?

Tsunamis can be devastating for coastal communities, particularly when they hit without warning. So how do scientists detect them in good time?
Lenticular cloud during sunrise in Bursa, Türkiye
Briefing

What are leticular clouds and how they are formed

High altitude clouds which have often been mistaken for UFOs
Geo Explainer: How common are tornadoes in the UK?
Science & Environment

Geo Explainer: How common are tornadoes in the UK?

Tornadoes are a surprisingly common occurrence in the UK, and are most likely to form in three ‘tornado hotspots’
Lake Toba
Science & Environment

Geo Explainer: Toba supervolcano, the biggest eruption in human history

The Toba supervolcano eruption was the most explosive in human history, but debates about its impact on human life are ongoing
One of the paths at Ohio State University
Briefing

Phenomena: What desire paths reveal about human nature

The shared shortcuts that defy the planners Navigating beyond the organised pavements and parks of our urban spaces, desire paths…

Discovering Britain

The Lowry, Salford Quay’s theatre, gallery and arts centre

Discovering Britain: Exploring Salford Quays

Sunrise at Ness Point, Britain’s most easterly place

Discovering Britain: the eastern most point of the UK

Looking down on the abandoned mines in the Ystwyth Valley

Ceredigion: the geographical centre of Wales

Liverpool’s dockside Baltic Fleet pub

Discovering Britain: A Geographical pub crawl

The entrance to West Norwood cemetery

Discovering Britain: West Norwood cemetery

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Long reads

Lenin’s bust peers down on the Russian mining town of Barentsburg in Svalbard

Arctic geopolitics: the Red Flag flying in Svalbard

A vast liquefied natural gas plant outside Doha

Country profile: Qatar

The rufous hare-wallaby, or mala, is one of the smallest marsupials

Return of the mala – Australia’s minature marsupial

Yaks on their summer pastures high in the Pamir Mountains

Yaks, yurts and adventures in Tajikistan

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

Mexico’s cenotes at risk from new train line

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