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2 weeks ago |
geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay
By Doug Specht, Universtiy of WestminsterBeneath the sun-bleached skies of the Caribbean, where the Atlantic’s azure waters merge with the Gulf of Mexico’s warmer currents, a modern geopolitical drama continues to unfold. This body of water, christened the Golfo de México by Spanish cartographers in the early 17th century, has become the latest flashpoint in a centuries-old struggle: who holds the power to name the world?
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3 weeks ago |
geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay
Mount Everest’s enduring appeal, seven decades after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s pioneering ascent, has created a mounting crisis. Despite deadly natural hazards and pandemic disruptions, the increasing accessibility of the mountain, driven by ever-improving equipment and commercial expeditions, has resulted in severe overcrowding and pollution. In 2019, viral images of queues to the summit circulated on social media.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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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.
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