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Helping nature to become resilient to climate change
As conditions get rapidly warmer, Andy Lester explores how we can create a climate-resilient landscape.
Debt trap nation: family homelessness in a failing state
Across England, one of the wealthiest yet most unequal nations in the world, families are being trapped in debt and homelessness. The lecture by Professor Katherine Brickell and Professor Melanie Nowicki will take audience members inside these issues.
From pixels to peat: the England Peat Map
Join this lunchtime webinar exploring the England Peat Map, covering the data and methods used as well as the outputs produced.
Predicting the ocean: a view from the Menai Strait
Britain is surrounded by ocean. But how does it function? Here Professor Tom Rippeth will examine how, over the past 2 millennia, we have pieced together nature's clues to better understand it.
These are a few of our favourite things
Nicholas Crane and experts on the Society's team take us through their hidden highlights of the Collections, showcasing how these can help tell new histories of travel, geography and exploration.
Revisiting the Dolgarrog dam disaster after 100 years
On 2 November 1925, a catastrophic flood swept through Dolgarrog village in north Wales, depositing enormous boulders and killing 16 people. In 2025, what have we learnt from this flood disaster?
Multiple deprivation in England, 2004 to 2025
Join us for a lunchtime webinar discussing the release of the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation. Explore how deprivation varies across England and how the use of this report can shape policy interventions and reduce spatial inequalities.
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?
Call of the Loon
A series of a solo sea kayaking expeditions, focused on finding and recording the calls of all of Scotland's breeding seabird species. This presentation was part of the RGS Explore Weekend 2025.
Katoka in the lost world 2024
Olivia McGregor, recipient of the 2024 Neville Shulman Challenge Award, travelled to one of the last biodiverse wildernesses on earth, commonly referred to as ‘The Lost World’ in Guyana. This presentation was part of the RGS Explore Weekend 2025.
Echoes of the Okavango 2025
Jay Frain will discuss Echoes of the Okavango, a 2025 expedition combining exploration and storytelling. This presentation was part of the Society's Explore weekend 2025.
Farming Futures Cycle Tour
This spring, Veronica White embarked on the Farming Futures Cycle Tour – a low-carbon, human-powered PhD fieldwork adventure, supported by one of our Postgraduate Research Awards. This presentation was part of the RGS Explore Weekend 2025.