Good COP, Bad COP: China, India and the prospect of success at COP26
Oct 22, 2021
Written by
Tim Marshall
The importance of COP26, taking place in Glasgow at the start of November, is hard to overstate. Tim Marshall explores the make or break geopolitical forces underlying the biggest climate conference since the Paris Agreement
Sub-Saharan Africa has a huge electricity problem – but with challenge comes opportunity
Oct 22, 2021
Written by
Katie Burton
Access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa is the worst in the world, a fact that touches every facet of people’s lives there. But change can happen with the right policies in place
Hippos, beavers and humans: friends reunited in modern Britain
Oct 20, 2021
Written by
James Wallace
James Wallace, chief executive of Beaver Trust, shares an unlikely tale of acquaintance between three familiar species
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021: Winners
Oct 14, 2021
Written by
Geographical
The winners of the most hotly anticipated photography competition have been announced
Arctic artist and geographer Nicholas Jones' evocative icebergs
Oct 13, 2021
Written by
Geographical
Artist and geographer Nick Jones was appointed artist in residence for the Friends of the Scott Polar Research Institute, and in 2018 voyaged to Greenland and Baffin Island, painting pictures of icebergs, clouds, cliffs and seascapes
A research expedition to uncharted waters in the Indian Ocean
Oct 13, 2021
Written by
Tommy Trenchard
Photojournalist Tommy Trenchard joins a research expedition to the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean, where a profusion of marine life waits to be discovered
A marketplace for soil carbon credits could change agriculture
Oct 13, 2021
Written by
Jacob Dykes
So far, carbon offsets have focused mostly on tree-planting. But a marketplace for verified soil carbon credits is emerging, and it could bring significant change to agriculture
Africa's most ambitious idea: The Great Green Wall
Oct 11, 2021
Written by
Words by Eleonora Vio, images by Patrick Tombola
In 2007, the African Union announced a hugely ambitious project – to plant the Great Green Wall, a band of trees that would stretch the length of the Sahel. Progress has been slow, but as a trip to Burkina Faso demonstrated, continued momentum could change lives
Social media is providing crucial data to study and monitor marine species
Oct 07, 2021
Written by
Jacob Dykes
Marine scientists are often too few and too underfunded to study marine species. Social media and citizen science is filling in the gaps
Saving the marmosets under threat from the pet trade
Oct 06, 2021
Written by
Lucy Haslam
Indigenous marmosets are under threat from released pets and forest fragmentation
Tracking the Persian leopard, a cat caught between two warring states
Oct 01, 2021
Written by
Jack Losh
A rare encounter with a leopard in the mountains of Armenia sparked a hunt for the elusive creature, caught between Armenia and Azerbaijan
An autonomous, uncrewed vehicle sets out to map the ocean floor
Sep 30, 2021
Written by
Jacob Dykes
The Saildrone Surveyor, a type of uncrewed autonomous vehicle, has completed its maiden voyage. Its design could enable Saildrone to revolutionise ocean mapping
Geopolitical hotspot: Escaping Afghanistan
Sep 30, 2021
Written by
Tim Marshall
Tim Marshall is a journalist, broadcaster and author of Prisoners of Geography and Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls. Here, he shares his take on the routes refugees may take to flee the Taliban in Afghanistan
Fabric of a nation: How flags can be used and co-opted
Sep 30, 2021
Written by
Matthew Benwell
Matthew Benwell, senior lecturer in human geography at Newcastle University, considers the ways in which flags can be used and co-opted
Australia won't pull its weight on climate change, despite a population embracing solar power
Sep 24, 2021
Written by
Matthew Brace
Australia has the highest per-capita use of rooftop solar power in the world and some of its states and territories are striding ahead with clean-energy initiatives, yet the federal government still keenly supports fossil fuels. So what’s up Down Under?
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