From Russia to the US, discover the world’s biggest forests by area and more about their fascinating history The total forest area in the world is 4.1 billion hectares, or 32 per cent. For context, ...

Discover the best equipment to bring on your next winter trail, to make sure those chilly runs go as smoothly as possible Winter trail running is a tough sport. Just ask Elsey Whyman-Davis, who ...

Mark Rowe investigates the surge in whale strandings along Scotland’s coast — a warning sign, scientists say, of deeper ...

More than 1,000 of the UK’s leading scientists wrote to MPs this morning, 20 November, urging them to attend a landmark ...

West of the famous White Cliffs of Dover, Kent’s coastline includes another remarkable landscape. Near the village of ...

The Great Green Wall was meant to reshape the Sahel. But as drought, bureaucracy and fading funds take their toll, its legacy ...

Suraj Milind Yengde is a leading scholar of caste and race whose new book, Caste: A Global Story, explores how caste-based ...

As governments from the Gulf to Beijing quietly buy up farmland around the world, a silent shift in global power is underway ...

Russian military advisers operate in Venezuela, and the Kremlin has sold Caracas about $10billion worth of weapons, including ...

The Brazilian president insisted on a summit shaped by local people, their traditions, and their foods, staging what has been ...

Jules Stewart reviews Geographical's book of the month, Our Bodies, Our Planet, by Marcus Hall – available to buy now ...

A journey across the Galápagos reveals an archipelago in motion, while record visitor numbers test the world’s greatest living laboratory ...