The Geographical Podcast
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45 episodes
On the Ground: Cloudtown, the village at the heart of the AI gold rush
One day in Iver, a village on the data centre frontier.Just outside of London, the land around the village of Iver has become ripe territory for the data centre build-out. Of all the sites given the go ahead, one in particular became the...
On the Ground: The Vet and 100 mysterious deaths
It's 1963 in the village of Smarden and all around the vet, Douglas Good, the animals have started to behave erratically. They pace the ground, run away, or become overly thirsty. Then, they fall down dead. What he does next will ma...
Introducing On the Ground: A new series from The Geographical Podcast
The first two episodes of On the Ground are available right now. Subscribe and listen on your favourite app.On the Ground is the new monthly podcast from Geographical, written and h...
On the Ground: A walk in the oldest forest on Earth
When scientists Neil Davies and Will McMahon stopped for lunch under the cliffs of west Somerset, they found something very unexpected. Their discovery supports a new paradigm about the world's oldest engineers, and may even change your mind ab...
On the Ground: Planes, Bristol and the teachers from Canada
When Stephen Clarke, a prominent local councillor and leading climate activist in Bristol, called the expansion of Bristol Airport the biggest carbon decision for a generation, he knew the environmental stakes were high. Then he found ou...
Introducing: On the Ground
This is On The Ground, a new podcast series from Geographical, written and hosted by Laura Cole. In this series, Laura will be getting out from behind her desk and on the ground, reporting from a...
Editor's Picks: The tourists restoring the Faroe Islands
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, we’re in the Faroe Islands, where
Editor's Picks: A victory for nature
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, journalists Marcello Rossi and Davide Mancini report from Spain, w...
Editor's Picks: The return of the mala
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine and website.This week, we join writer and photographer Anthony Ham in Australia's G...
Editor's Picks: 'We suffer in silence'
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, share Nick Danziger's work
Editor's Picks: Stop the train
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, we report on the campaign to save Mexico’s famous cenotes – natura...
Editor's Picks: Conservation is working
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, we hear how – worldwide –
Editor's Picks: A new threat to the UK's fishing industry
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, we investigate the impact of new visa regulations on the UK’s fish...
Editor's Picks: The meaning of mountains
In this episode of The Geographical Podcast, we read out articles from our print magazine or website.This week, we head into the mountains with Dawn Hollis, a historian at St And...
Editor's Picks: The fight for the Amazon
This week, we head into the Ecuadorian Amazon, where Indigenous leader and environmental activist Nemonte Nenquimo has spent the last decade fighting to protect her ancestral territory, the forest ecosystem and her way of life, from encroaching...
Interview: Saving the African manatee with Aristide Kamla
In this bonus episode, we interview recent Whitley Award winner Aristide Kamla and hear all about his work, conserving Cameroon's marine wildlife
Editor's Picks: Saving Ecuador's last condors
This week, a trip to the Ecuadorian Andes where Mark Stratton visits a project aiming to save the country's last wild condors. Plus, an ancient Egyptian mystery and writer Alec Ash's decision to ditch the rat race in China and move to the beaut...
Editor's Picks: A fairer future for South Africa's rooibos farmers
This week, we dive into the science of shipwrecks and find out what they can reveal about our changing oceans; board an icebreaker en route to Antarctica; and visit the rooibos plantations in South Africa's Cederberg Mountains, where Indigenous...
Editor's Picks: The brain and climate change, and tracking the elusive snow leopard
This week, we travel to the high peaks of Ladakh in northern India to track one of the most elusive and charismatic animals in the world - the snow leopard. Plus, a bizarre proposal in Malaysia and the terrifying, underreported, impacts of clim...
Editor's Picks: Hunting the world's largest flower
In this episode, Andrew Brooks of King's College London explains why using historical comparisons when contemplating African hospitals is lazy and misleading; we hear some good news from the world of conservation; and Bryony Cottam charts the a...
Editor's Picks: Why tourists are returning to Iraq
In this weekly edition of the Geographical podcast, we read out three articles from the magazine or website.In this episode, we hear how climate change is
Editor's Picks BONUS: Tommy Trenchard on writing about clubfoot
In this bonus episode of The Geographical Podcast: Editor's Picks, associate editor Katie Burton speaks to Tommy Trenchard about his article on treating clubfoot.
Editor's Picks: Treating clubfoot in Zimbabwe
In this weekly edition of the Geographical podcast we read out three articles from the magazine or website.
Desertification: a Growing Threat
In this month's podcast, we visit some of the driest parts of the world, where ecosystems and the communities that depend on them face a growing threat: desertification. Human activity and our warming climate are driving changes in these region...