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South Sudan’s new coins
Aug 11, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
To commemorate its fourth year of independence, South Sudan has released a new set of coins. Geographical takes a look at what this could mean for the world's newest country
The Welsh Gauchos
Aug 04, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
There’s a little bit of Wales alive and well in the valleys of Argentina
Coast to Coast: The Cold Way
Aug 03, 2015
Written by
Sarah Outen
In her latest report from the field, Sarah Outen describes a cycling adventure across the breadth of North America, the penultimate leg of her ongoing human-powered journey around the world
All the world’s a stage
Jul 27, 2015
Written by
Melody Kemp
A two-year global tour sees Shakespeare’s Globe theatre attempting to put on performances of Hamlet in every country on the planet. Geographical caught up with the players in Laos
Gold diggers
Jul 20, 2015
Written by
Geographical
A major Geographical investigation looks at the devastating environmental and debilitating health effects a Thai gold mine is having on a village in Loei, and at how a group of determined villagers are fighting back
Voices of the ‘Afectados’
Jul 20, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
A new film hears directly from inhabitants of the Ecuadorian Amazon suffering from the detrimental effects of oil spills dating back over twenty years
Spray days
Jul 19, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Colombia’s anti-coca crop spraying programme has been suspended – for the time being at least
UK asylum seekers – by the numbers
Jul 17, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
In 2014, the United Kingdom hosted 117,161 refugees, 36,383 pending asylum cases and 16 stateless persons, according to the UNHCR
Unearthing Iceland’s heritage
Jul 14, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Recent discoveries suggest Iceland’s first settlers were not, in fact, Viking-age Scandinavians. Celtic Scottish and Irish explorers look likely to have arrived first
The forgotten war
Jul 11, 2015
Written by
Laura Cole
As WWI commemorations take place, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya remember the East Africa campaign
Howard Wood
Jul 06, 2015
Wood took up diving as a hobby, but soon found the Isle of Arran’s once abundant waters depleted through overfishing. He won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe in recognition of COAST, which he co-founded to protect Arran’s waters
Tragic routes
Jul 04, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Guadeloupe opens a centre dedicated to the memory of the slave trade
Rights of passage
Jun 27, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
A landmark ruling finally gives hope to indigenous peoples around the world fighting to reclaim their homelands
Finland’s vanishing rural population
Jun 26, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Finland is one of the OECD’s most rural countries, but the rural population is ageing fast and one-by-one the country’s villages are shrinking away
Fleeing Eritrea
Jun 24, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
The small repressive nation of Eritrea, sitting atop the Horn of Africa, remains largely unmentioned in mainstream media, despite being a significant cause of Mediterranean refugees
Passing through? Life in Bulgaria’s refugee camps
Jun 23, 2015
Written by
Kit Gillet
On the outskirts of Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, the refugee centre of Ovcha Kupel houses over 700 foreign nationals, most of them individuals or families fleeing the turmoil in Syria and Afghanistan. Paint is peeling and conditions are basic, yet…
The Rohingya: homeless and stateless
Jun 22, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
The humanitarian crisis facing the Rohingya in south Asia can’t be explained without understanding the complex – and conflicting – anthropological and political identities
High on a hill
Jun 21, 2015
Written by
Tom Hart
Switzerland’s youth have the second- highest cannabis consumption in the world, according to UNICEF
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