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World Elephant Day 2025: Teacher captures surprise lunchtime visit from group of elephants

School children next to an elephant in Kenya. Image: Faith Tanui/WWF A teacher in Kenya captured the moment elephants joined her students during a lunchtime break By Victoria Heath Students of Kunchu Primary School in Amboseli, Kenya, had a surprise visit from a group of elephants during their lunchtime break. Alerting their teacher, Betty Silantoi, schoolkids were kept safe from the elephants through solar-powered fences – built by WWF – separa…Read Article

Equipment matters: multi-pitch climbing

The Fitz Roy Massif. Image: Shutterstock Tristan Kennedy meets Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll, whose 30-kilo kitbag – and even greater inner resolve – helped him traverse Patagonia’s fiercest ridge alone By Victoria Heath Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll had already been climbing for three days straight when he found the dead body. The 44-year-old mountaineer was midway through attempting a world first – a solo traverse of the Fitz Roy Massif, the iconic …El Chaltén · El Chaltén Read Article

Geo explainer: What is a heat dome, and is it different to a heat wave?

2024 was the hottest year on record, at about 1.55C above pre-industrial levels – a year when several heat domes appeared around the world. Shutterstock Current extreme temperatures are related to a ‘heat dome’, but what exactly are these weather phenomena and how are they formed? By Victoria Heath The term ‘heat wave’ has become an increasingly familiar term in news headlines in recent years, as countries battle rising temperatures amid climate…Heatwaves · Faversham Read Article

Five islands that no longer exist

Discover more about vanishing islands across the globe, and why some ‘phantom islands’ have entirely disappeared from maps By Victoria Heath Around the world, our maps are littered with islands – there are between 200,000 to 670,000. Some, such as Pitcairn and Tristan da Cunha, are isolated and remote, thousands of kilometres from the nearest neighbour; some are vast land masses in their own right, such as Greenland and New Guinea, and some are …Russia · Russia Read Article

Review: Small Earthquakes by Shafik Meghji

Small Earthquakes traverses across South America to uncover the lost and often surprising links between Britain and South America. Image: Shutterstock In his latest book, Shafik Meghji tracks the relationship between Britain and Latin America across hundreds of years By Jules Stewart Britain’s historical presence remains highly visible across large parts of Asia and Africa. In the Western Hemisphere, it was Britain that helped launch the nation …Buenos Aires · Buenos Aires Read Article

Why tourism needs a conscience

Penguin researcher Pablo Garcia Borboroglu on sustainable wildlife encounters By Bryony Cottam When Pablo Garcia Borboroglu was a young boy, his grandmother told him tales of the penguins that lived on Argentina’s Patagonian coast. She was an early ecotourist, as Borboroglu puts it, making several trips by horse and wagon to see the birds throughout the 1920s and ’30s – a time when seals were still hunted locally for fur and oil. Her stories spa…Tourism · Argentina Read Article

Western Europe’s largest artificial lake was meant to save southern Portugal. It may be doing the opposite

The Alqueva dam is nearly 100 metres high, creating a reservoir that can hold 4,150 million cubic metres of water. Image: Paulo Resende/Shutterstock The Alqueva dam promised prosperity for Portugal’s parched south. Instead, it’s fuelling a corporate-driven monoculture that ecologists and farmers warn is destroying the land and the way of life that it sustained By Marta Vidal, photographs by André Paxiuta On a bright winter morning, Eva Barrocas …Portugal · Portugal Read Article

How Polylepis forests are reshaping the Andes

Constantino Aucca Chutas in Abra Malaga, a high mountain pass near Cusco, Peru. Image: Rolex/Sofia Lopez Mañan High in the Andes, Constantino Aucca Chutas is restoring ancient forests and water systems with the help of local communities and Incan tradition It’s 5am in Peru when Constantino Aucca Chutas answers his phone. He shrugs off apologies for calling him at such an early hour, explaining that he’s shortly heading out to visit a local refor…Peru · Peru Read Article

The countries that are not recognised around the world

Hargeisa district in Somaliland. Image: Shutterstock From Liberland to Catalonia, find out some of the countries and territories not recognised around the world By Victoria Heath In pursuit of being acknowledged as a independent state, many nations and territories have become embroiled in intense geopolitical tensions and escalating conflict. For example, the conflict between Israel and Palestine is one of the longest-spanning disputes in the wo…Palestine · Palestine Read Article

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