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City of ghosts
A decade after the Asian economic crisis, Ben Winston photographs Bangkok’s half-finished skyscrapers, left to rot when the money ran out
The man who climbed Everest
Following Sir Edmund Hillary’s death in January, Stephen Venables remembers the world’s most famous and best-loved mountaineer
The garbage people of Cairo
The Zabbaleen, a small Christian community in Cairo, collect and recycle 4,000 tonnes of the city’s rubbish each day. But, despite the health risks, their biggest concern is being forced to stop. Jessica Boyd reports
Scholars and Amazon
Former director of the Royal Geographical Society John Hemming looks back at the Society’s history of exploration in the Amazon rainforest
The cliff-dwellers
Geordie Torr visits San Juan County, Utah, to sample the incredible archaeological legacy of the ancestral Puebloan people
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• That moment From chasing butterflies to rediscovering a desert oasis, the winners of our recent competition share stories of the holiday moment that changed the way that they looked at the world
• Archive: Getting from A to B Images drawn from the RGS archives show how different forms of transport have helped human beings reach their destinations
• Essential gear: caving expeditions With the right gear and a little imagination, going underground needn’t leave you in the dark, writes Robbie Shone
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Chernobyl disaster emergency phase over
The UN has declared that the Chernobyl region has entered a new phase of recovery following the devastating explosion at a nuclear power plant in 1986 and has outlined a ten-year plan for recoveryRead on
Aqqaluk Lynge
The president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Lynge has become a figurehead for the indigenous peoples of the Arctic. He talks to Mark Rowe about his work and the plight of the InuitRead on
Clwydian Range
Natalie Hoare visits the Clwydian Range, the most recently designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in northeastern Wales, and discovers that the region has strong links to nearby LiverpoolRead on
Stuck in the mud
Photographer Arief Sunarya captures the devastation caused by the mud volcano in East Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populous islandRead on
To the ends of the Earth
A selection of images from the archives of the RGS showing some of the best-known explorers of the worldRead onAbout us
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