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  • Monday night lectureBlack gates outside Downing Street in London.

    Monday night lecture with the Rt Hon the Baroness May of Maidenhead

    Former Prime Minister and geography graduate, Baroness May, will be giving the closing lecture of the autumn series.

    London and online
    Members + one guest
    Monday 8 December 2025
    Free
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  • SocialAtmospheric Research Observatory, South Pole, Antarctica.

    On thin ice: a life in the Antarctic

    Professor Dame Jane Francis will combine talking about her own life in polar research with insights into cutting-edge research now being done in Cambridge on the threat to the Antarctic ice shelf. The talk will be followed by wine and canapes.

    Norwich
    Open to all
    Wednesday 10 December 2025
    £8.00 - £12.00
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  • LectureEmpty beach with waves under a dark, cloudy sky.

    Driven by the monsoons

    Using archaeology, Barry Cunliffe explores the origins of the modern connected world through historic trade routes crossing the Indian Ocean.

    Oxford
    Open to all
    Thursday 11 December 2025
    £0.00 - £2.00
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Latest news

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Study finds soil health largely absent from UK media reporting on climate change

A new study in the Geographical Journal has found that soil health is rarely discussed as a climate change issue in the UK media.

Saturday 6 Dec 2025
Research and higher education
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Supporting the teaching of oceans

Friday 5 Dec 2025
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Submit your images now for Earth Photo 2026

Thursday 4 Dec 2025
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Delegates watching a lecture at the annual conference in 2024, in the Ondaatje Theatre

Annual International Conference to explore inequalities

Tuesday 2 Dec 2025
RGS-IBG news

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