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Category: Geo: Geography and Environment
Planet of the fixers?
By Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Maintenance and repair are on the agenda. In October 2018, The Economist declared … More
4 new features to the journals: explained
By Phil Emmerson, RGS-IBG Readers of the RGS-IBG journals may have noticed a couple of changes over the last few … More
Reflections on “sublime encounters” with the media
By Amy Donovan, University of Cambridge, first published on Geo: Geography and Environment’s bloghttps://wordpress.com/post/blog.geographyandenvironment.com/635 In December 2018, I published a … More
DNA sequencing can help fight epidemics — but there are privacy risks
By Liam Shaw, University of Oxford and Nicola C. Sugden, University of Manchester* The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling … More
Mapping Microbial Multiplicity
By Carmen McLeod, Erika Szymanski, Joshua Evans, Anna Krzywoszynska, and Alexandra Sexton Microbes are everywhere. Headlines announce that microbes have been found in all … More
Are salamanders finally feeling the heat? The overlooked effects of climate change.
By Catherine Waite, University of Nottingham Our society is inundated with information about climate change: it is in the news, … More
Beyond the Basin: Water diversion in a Warming World
By Jillian Smith, University of Birmingham The Great Lakes–at the U.S. and Canadian international boundary–are the planet’s largest system of … More
Open science: carrots and sticks
Open data can help boost democracy around the world, wrote Jonathan Gray in The Guardian. Writing in advance of the … More
New journal, Geo: Geography and Environment open for submissions
by Fiona Nash, Managing Editor: Academic Publications at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Geo: Geography and Environment is a fully open access, … More
