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Victims of Geography?: On the Spurious Use of the Word “Geography” in the Sewell Commission Report.

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications April 8, 2021April 8, 2021
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Men deported to Jamaica are being set up for failure

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications December 10, 2020January 7, 2021

Does exposure to air pollution increase the risk of dying from the coronavirus (COVID-19)?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications August 14, 2020January 7, 2021

Researching the Covid-19 pandemic from the lens of a health geographer: Maps, spatial scales, and social inequities

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications July 7, 2020January 7, 2021

Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic Publications June 26, 2020October 1, 2020
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Levelling Up in the Knowledge Economy: Can the Ruhr Shake off its Rust?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 16, 2021April 15, 2021
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How should the British countryside look post-Brexit? We asked the public

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 15, 2021April 15, 2021
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Post-pandemic travel: the trends we’ll see when the world opens up again

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 14, 2021April 12, 2021
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Antarctica’s ice shelves are trembling as global temperatures rise – what happens next is up to us

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 13, 2021April 12, 2021
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The policing of bodies and emotions: London in lockdown, March 2021.

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 12, 2021April 9, 2021
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Spotlighting LGBTQ+-Inclusive Fieldwork

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 9, 2021April 16, 2021
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Striving for Coexistence: Is Galapagos Goat Cheese the Solution?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsApril 7, 2021April 7, 2021
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Cities must cut their ‘consumption emissions’ – here’s how

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 29, 2021March 29, 2021
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Wildfires: we calculated how climate change will increase danger in the UK

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 25, 2021March 25, 2021
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How the UK’s first lockdown changed water habits – and risked shortages

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 24, 2021March 23, 2021
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Sea levels are rising fastest in big cities – here’s why

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 23, 2021March 25, 2021
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The Right to have Rights after Brexit

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 22, 2021March 19, 2021
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Census 2021 and Migration

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 21, 2021March 22, 2021
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Census 2021 will reveal how a year of lockdowns and furlough has transformed the UK

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 20, 2021March 19, 2021
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Census 2021: why are some people completing it online and others have paper forms?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 19, 2021March 19, 2021
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Census 2021: why it’s important to take part and what happens to your information

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 17, 2021March 16, 2021
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Geography and the census

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 15, 2021March 15, 2021
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I spoke to ‘minimalists’ to find out why they are giving up their personal possessions

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 10, 2021March 8, 2021
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Greenspaces and the greener recovery: the need to emphasize systems over sites.

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 9, 2021March 8, 2021
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Why has the UK’s COVID death toll been so high? Inequality may have played a role

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 5, 2021March 4, 2021
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South-west Iceland is shaking – and may be about to erupt

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 4, 2021
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How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsMarch 1, 2021March 1, 2021
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LGBTQ+ History Month in the Geosciences

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 26, 2021February 25, 2021
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We need a green recovery after COVID-19, but banning wildlife trade could do more harm than good

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 24, 2021February 22, 2021
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Earth’s magnetic field broke down 42,000 years ago and caused massive sudden climate change

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 23, 2021February 22, 2021
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Climate and Sustainable Development: Universities as Leaders

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 22, 2021February 22, 2021
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Eco-fusion is the new normal, as native and non-native species mix together

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 19, 2021February 19, 2021
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Climate change is making extreme cold much less likely, despite the UK plummeting to -23°C

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 18, 2021February 15, 2021
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Planetary Safe Mode? Turning Lockdowns into a tool to fight Climate Change

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 17, 2021February 18, 2021
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‘You never know if you will be treated properly and with respect’: voices of LGBTIQA+ people who lived through disasters

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 16, 2021February 16, 2021
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Border closures are not the answer to the UK’s coronavirus crisis

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 15, 2021February 15, 2021
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Cumbria coal mine could usher in a net-zero-compliant fossil fuel industry – or prove it was always a fantasy

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 12, 2021March 1, 2021
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Will the COVID pandemic cause London’s population to decline?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 11, 2021February 11, 2021
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What can geographers learn from the 2020 ‘anthropause’?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 10, 2021February 8, 2021
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LGBTQ+ Inclusive Fieldwork

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 9, 2021April 8, 2021
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The Anti-politics of the Sustainable Development Goals in Bolivia and beyond

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 8, 2021February 8, 2021
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Paradox lost: wetlands can form in deserts, but we need to find and protect them

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 4, 2021February 3, 2021
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How China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing cities – and threatening communities

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 3, 2021February 3, 2021
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Why keeping one mature street tree is far better for humans and nature than planting lots of new ones

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsFebruary 2, 2021February 2, 2021
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Gendering Covid19 in India

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 25, 2021January 25, 2021
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Brexit: financial services face continued uncertainty – here’s why

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 21, 2021January 20, 2021
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COVID-19 vaccines: how and when will lower-income countries get access?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 20, 2021January 19, 2021
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Innovative use of publicly available data provides new insights into the equity of access to services by public transport in England

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 19, 2021January 19, 2021
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Climate change: what would 4°C of global warming feel like?

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 18, 2021January 18, 2021
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First lockdown’s effect on air pollution was overstated, our study reveals

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021
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Peat bogs: restoring them could slow climate change – and revive a forgotten world

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 12, 2021January 12, 2021
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Risk and Responsibility in Popular Responses to COVID-19

By RGS-IBG Managing Editor: Academic PublicationsJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021
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