Graeme Gourlay

1 week ago | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay

By Robbie MallettIn his book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson describes the internet waking up each day and selecting one person on whom to focus its collective,latent rage.

1 month ago | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay

With the support of our partner, Aggressor Adventures, a world-leading travel company, we’re launching the Better World Video Awards 2025. Last year we received hundreds of entries that told amazing stories about people and projects helping to improve life on our planet.

Nov 30, 2024 | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay

By The original iconic photograph of the Earth taken from Apollo 17 in 1972 had Antarctica at the top. That NASA decided to flip the image is one of the many remarkable facts that you discover in this marvellous examination of how we orientate ourselves and how that affects how we see the world. As Jeremy Brotton so elegantly explains, north, south, east and west are far more than points on a map, or a direction of travel.

Nov 25, 2024 | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay

By Spanning a whole host of landscapes – from the Amazon rainforest, the bustling cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, to the iconic Copacabana beach, Brazil is home to more than 220 million people and a diverse range of cultures, traditions and ways of life. In our latest country profile, discover more about Brazil and its fascinating past with our succinct timeline, and browse through the most important facts about the nation in our fact file…8,515,770 square kilometres.

Nov 12, 2024 | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay

The world’s ecosystems, the complex living communities on which we all depend, are in grave danger. I am vividly aware of this, because I have watched their decline for longer than most of us. I began SCUBA diving in 1957, only four years after the publication of Jacques Cousteau’s wondrous book The Silent World. Since then, I have dived repeatedly on reefs and other underwater ecosystems throughout the world and have watched their gradual and heartbreaking deterioration.