Graeme Gourlay

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Publisher at Geographical

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Everest: climbing into crisis

3 days 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.
Don't care about the Arctic because it's empty and distant - care because it's busy and close

4 weeks 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.
Better World Video Awards 2025

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.
Review: Four Points of the Compass by Jerry Brotton

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.
Brazil: key facts about the world's fifth-largest country

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.
How quickly can ecosystems evolve to meet new challenges?

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.
The best geography books on the modern world

Nov 2, 2024 | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay
Review: Sharkpedia, A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore by Daniel C Abel

Oct 24, 2024 | divemagazine.com | Graeme Gourlay

Review by What a treat this pocket-sized compendium is, packed with fascinating facts and peppered with delightfuldrawings by wildlife illustrator Marc Dando. The author, Daniel C Abel, is a professor of marine science at Coastal Carolina University and crams a stunning amount into the 100 entries, covering everything from the golden age of the sharks 300 million years ago, to today’s threat from ruthless finning.
Review - The High Seas, by Olive Heffernan

Aug 7, 2024 | divemagazine.com | Graeme Gourlay

Review by More than two-thirds of our oceans are beyond national boundaries. Olive Heffernan, an experienced ocean scientist turned campaigning writer, explains in this powerful and detailed book, that the world out there on the High Seas is lawless and dangerous.
Dubai freak rainstorm was far too big to be caused by cloud seeding

Apr 21, 2024 | geographical.co.uk | Graeme Gourlay

By Richard Washington,Professor of Climate Science, University of OxfordSome years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on a sultry runway in a deserted airport near the South Africa-Mozambique border. The humidity was there to taste – the air thick with it. The weather radar was showing a fast-developing thundercloud.