Recently added articles from Geographical:
Keeping the jungle green.(FROM THE editor)(touring the Peruvian Amazon)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2009 ... In May this year, I was lucky enough to spent a week in the Peruvian Amazon. This was something of a dream come true for me--as a lifelong lover of rainforest, the fact that I had never set foot in the jungles of the Amazon Basin was an itch that constantly needed scratching. ...
Geographical competition.(WHERE IN THE world?)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... Identify this country using the following clues: It has one of the world's highest birth rates--more than 42 births per 1,000 people -- It has no permanent rivers -- Less than nine per cent of its roads are paved, and it has no rail ...
World's most complete map released.(WORLD watch)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The most up-to-date and complete topographical record of the Earth's surface has been launched as a result of a collaboration between Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NASA. Captured by Japan's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal ...
Uganda's forests 'to disappear by 2050'.(WORLD watch)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... Uganda's forests 'to disappear by 2050': Urbanisation and a rapidly growing population reliant on wood for fuel have forced Uganda's forests into retreat, according to a recent report by the National Environment Management Authority, the country's main environmental body. ...
Afghanistan's first national park opens.(WORLD watch)(Band-e-Amir National Park)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... An area in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains has been established as the country's first national park, following a joint effort by the Afghan and US governments and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). At 590 square kilometres, Band-e-Amir National Park--meaning 'dam of ...