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Country profile: Qatar. Load More. Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Informative, authoritative and educational, this site’s content covers a wide range of subject areas, including geography, culture, wildlife and exploration, illustrated with superb photography.
Is COP29 at a dead end? - Geographical
1 day ago · This puts COP29 at a dead end. On paper, the summit is called to solve the age-old problem of financing climate change adaptation efforts in poorer countries, to find how to fund ‘loss and damage’ or the rescue of communities affected by extreme events and to implement last year’s major accomplishment in Dubai: the commitment to ‘transition away from fossil fuels.’
How quickly can ecosystems evolve to meet new challenges?
9 hours ago · Indeed, the ability of these tiny organisms to evolve new biochemical and organisational capacities has led to some of life’s most planet-altering events, from the appearance of multicellular organisms to the evolution of the ability to photosynthesise. And the very complexity of ecosystems, as Darwin had intuited, plays a huge role.
Geographical November 2024 - Geographical
November 2024. The Gafsa Valley, in central Tunisia, was once dominated by fields of olive and pistachio plantations. Today, it’s better known as the location of the world’s fourth largest phosphate reserve. In our November cover story, environmental journalist Arianna Poletti documents the devastating impact that the phosphate-mining ...
The first open-source atlas of the world’s ecosystems has launched
Oct 25, 2024 · The first open-source atlas of the world’s ecosystems has launched. Just over half the world’s ecosystems have been mapped so far. The Global Ecosystems Atlas will help to monitor them, and could help chart the rest. By Bryony Cottam. A new conservation tool, the Global Ecosystems Atlas, has been launched with the goal of providing a ...
Discovering Britain: Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat - Geographical
6 days ago · Like Castle Rock and Calton Hill, Arthur’s Seat is a dormant volcano. Around 360 million years ago, the local landscape comprised swampy lagoons, preserved on Arthur’s Seat as sedimentary layers of sandstone and mudstone. The hills were formed by volcanic activity between 341 and 335 million years ago. Layers of volcanic ash are still ...
Culture Archives - Geographical
Oct 29, 2024 · Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Informative, authoritative and educational, this site’s content covers a wide range of subject areas, including geography, culture, wildlife and exploration, illustrated with superb photography.
Geographical May 2024 - Geographical
Apr 19, 2024 · May 2024. The snow leopard lives in some of the harshest conditions on Earth, where its thick grey-and-white coat renders it almost invisible against the rocky, snow-covered mountains of Central Asia. In the May issue of Geographical, Stuart Butler is on the tracks of this elusive ‘ghost of the mountains’ (as it is often known) in India’s ...
UK Archives - Geographical
Jul 27, 2024 · Published in the UK since 1935, Geographical is the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Informative, authoritative and educational, this site’s content covers a wide range of subject areas, including geography, culture, wildlife and exploration, illustrated with superb photography.
Geographical September 2022 - Geographical
Aug 26, 2022 · September 2022. The September issue of Geographical is out now! In this month’s issue, we zoom in on the UK’s crumbling coastline, asking what’s being done (or not) to protect the homes, infrastructure and historic sites most at risk from erosion. In North Africa too, certain places, long inhabited by humans, are crumbling away.