Mark Rowe
Journalist at Freelance
Author @bradtguides #OuterHebrides #Orkney #IsleofWight. Journalist with Royal Geographical Society
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4 weeks ago |
geographical.co.uk | Mark Rowe
By In Chinese folklore, the neglected dead can become vengeful, hungry ghosts who unleash illness and misfortune on their descendants. The living must feed and care for their deceased relatives. During a visit to her ancestral village in southern China, Alice Mah finds that no-one has swept her ancestors’ graves for decades. She doesn’t know it yet, but the hungry ghosts await her.
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1 month ago |
geographical.co.uk | Mark Rowe
More than 3,300 politicians, government officials, scientists and lobbyists – including conservationists and chemical industry figures – from more than 170 countries and 450 organisations participated in the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution. Its fifth, and supposedly final, round was held in Busan, South Korea, in December to sign off on the first legally binding international treaty to tackle a problem most assumed was commonly accepted as needing urgent action.
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Oct 31, 2024 |
geographical.co.uk | Mark Rowe
By The El Farol bar in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is no tourist hotspot. But it lends its name to a game theory scenario that’s pertinent to the phenomenonof unfettered global tourism. Once a week, the theory goes, a fixed population wants to go and have fun at the El Farol bar, unless it’s too crowded. Everyone must decide at the same time whether to go or not, with no knowledge of others’ choices. If more than 60 per cent of the population go to the bar, they’ll have less fun than if they stayed home.
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Sep 13, 2024 |
geographical.co.uk | Mark Rowe
By The answer to life, the universe and everything was, according to Deep Thought, the supercomputer in Douglas Adams’ Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 42. The answers to mitigating and reversing climate change are proving more complex but artificial intelligence (AI) is now being promoted as a game changer by scientists and conservationists.
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Aug 25, 2024 |
geographical.co.uk | Mark Rowe
By What does a track tell us? On land, routes get modernised, expanded, clogged up, closed but they are at least tangible and generally fixed by physical infrastructure. Travellers by and large stick to them. Sea routes are, self-evidently, rather more fluid.
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I've written a feature on food production in the Outer Hebrides & what lessons it offers for sustainable food use on a wider scale @GeographicalMag @BradtGuides @OuterHebs @HebrideanHopsc1 @B_I_W @CalMacFerries https://t.co/AG1NL6tC2y
Five star reviews all the way for my new edition of the Bradt guide to Orkney, and with lovely comments that genuinely make the whole project worthwhile. Thanks to all of you who have bought it. @BradtGuides @orkneycom #Scotland #Travel https://t.co/9PqlDSSI1l
Seven seconds of Luskentyre, looking across towards the Hushinish road #IsleofHarris I'm researching the 3rd edition of my guidebook to the #OuterHebrides & the weather is being incredibly cooperative! @OuterHebs @BradtGuides https://t.co/D3mcaWT8iR
