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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 

And...

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 on

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