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Understanding and communicating risk through geospatial applications
Hear from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) geospatial team on the range of tools developed to support risk assessment and decision-making across the organisation.
Rhinos in the rainforest: what links the world's rarest rhinos and the climate crisis?
This conversation explores how the fate of the world’s rarest rhinos reflects wider environmental pressures shaping natural ecosystems and human communities across the globe, and how ensuring their survival is a key tool in the fight against runaway climate change in one of the most biodiverse regions on earth.
Lessons from the ice: what it means to be a scientist in 2026
Dr Heïdi Sevestre explores bold science, resilience, and the urgent responsibility of scientists today to engage, communicate, and inspire collective climate action.
Falklands under pressure: climate change, farming, wildlife, and peatland recovery
A discussion by Dr Jim McAdam on how the Falkland Islands Government, environmental NGOs and land owners are coping with the rapidly escalating impacts of climate change on the Islands.
Voices from the Global South: listening to climate perspectives
This evening brings together a series of short talks offering perspectives on the climate crisis from across the Global South.
Have you seen the caribou? Paddling where climate change rewrites the map
Cory Jones paddles remote rivers in north-west Canada, encountering disrupted landscapes and generous First Nations communities, where a simple question about missing caribou reveals profound environmental and cultural change.
The urban future
Join us on GeoNight, the European night of geography to discuss how urban design can bring nature back into cities boosting biodiversity, wellbeing, and climate resilience.
Climate resilience in a changing world
Experts discuss strategies for resilience, sustainable planning, and innovative solutions to protect people and landscapes from environmental uncertainty.
Helping nature to become resilient to climate change
As conditions get rapidly warmer, Andy Lester explores how we can create a climate-resilient landscape.
Bound by water: linking Amazonian diversity and climate vulnerability
In this lecture, National Geographic Explorers Julia Tavares and Thiago Silva will explore how they are combining cutting-edge methods in plant morphology and functional ecology, environmental monitoring, drone remote sensing and 3D laser scanning (LiDAR) to address a central question: How are different Amazonian forests being affected by climate change?
Environmental justice and climate action: victims of the ‘war on woke’?
Professor Laura Pulido explores how the 'war on woke' promoted by dominant figures in the US Republican Party is harming climate action and environmental justice in the US and far beyond.
Climate change under political extremism
As far-right movements gain ground across Europe and the US, what’s at stake for environmental policy? Join experts for a discussion on sustaining climate action amid political shifts on both sides of the Atlantic.