GA Elected Trustee nominations - Geographical Association The Geographical Association (GA) is looking for two new Elected Trustees to join its Board of Trustees from September 2026.

Would you like to become a trustee of the Geographical Association? We're seeking nominations for 2 trustees to be elected by the membership. Keen to see nominations from wide range of backgrounds e.g. early career teachers, primary colleagues. Closing date is 4 May.
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Today on the World of Music blog I’m after your Glastonbury memories for a lengthy post in late June as there’s no festival this year… worldlymusic.blogspot.com/2026/04/apr-...

LivingGeography Newsletter #68 Apr 16th-22nd

LivingGeography Newsletter #68 now published open.substack.com/pub/livingge...

World's biggest condom maker Karex set to raise prices due to Iran war Malaysia-based Karex produces more than five billion condoms a year and supplies global brands like Durex and Trojan.

World's biggest condom maker set to raise prices due to Iran war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Young People’s Climate Change and Sustainability Survey (Ages 14-19) This survey is part of a UK-wide study led by the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education at University College London. We want to understand how young people across the UK learn about,...

UK 14–19s: How should schools teach climate change? 🌍
​UCL is running an anonymous survey to help shape future education policy and teaching resources.
​🎁 Enter the draw for a £20 voucher
⏱️ Takes 25–30 mins
🔗 qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
​#ClimateEducation #UKEducation #YouthVoice

Grindavík and Hveragerði in highest hazard zone - RÚV.is New reports from Veðurstofa Íslands (Icelandic Meteorological Office) on lava hazard clearly show where eruptions could occur and lava could flow on Reykjanes and in the capital area. Some key infrast...

www.ruv.is/english/2026...

Togo to ask UN member states to use map showing Africa's true size Togo will ask United Nations member states to adopt ‌a world map that more accurately reflects the true size of Africa and ditch the 16th-century Mercator projection, its foreign minister said.

The politics of cartography
@reuters.com
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7,900 died, disappeared on migration routes in 2025: UN Around 7,900 people died or disappeared on migration routes in 2025, taking the total dead and missing since 2014 beyond 80,000, the United Nations' migration agency has said.

'Around 7,900 people died or disappeared on migration routes in 2025, taking the total dead and missing since 2014 beyond 80,000'
@iom.int
www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

LivingGeography Dispatches from my geography classroom, life as a freelance Geographer, and Everyday Geographical discoveries.

Closing in on 10 million page views of LivingGeography - should reach that tomorrow - over 13700 posts since May 2008 when I started it livinggeography.blogspot.com

📣 Meet the RGS professional team at the ESRI UK Annual Conference!

Learn more about our work, support for geographers, and our Chartered Geographer accreditation.

If you’re attending, come by our stand - we'd love to connect. 🌍✨

#Geography #AC2026

Apr 18: Guest blogger Carl Lee #12: Brian Eno's ambient cover art The 12th in a series of posts from Carl Lee. The musical landscapes of Brian Eno’s cover art A close friend used to have all four-album cove...

Yesterday on the World of Music blog @drcarllee.bsky.social was talking about the ambient albums of Brian Eno worldlymusic.blogspot.com/2026/01/gues...

Rude names, railways and a mass trespass - how the Peak District became a tourist attraction It became the UK's first national park 75 years ago, but has been attracting visitors for longer.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DOUNANA (without us) SIBA & MONKYMAN YouTube video by MONKyMAN

Anyone know anymore about Berlin based Siba? This is one righteously angry song that just dropped into my vision.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdFl...

Sudanese band Aswat Almadina on playing on through the war One of Sudan's most popular bands, Aswat Almadina, recall being in the studio when the war broke out three years ago.

#worldofmusic 'The weapons were loud, but there was always music': Sudanese band play on through the war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#worldofmusic

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer The term - kokushobi - translates to

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @geoblogs.bsky.social

My train to Brugge has a playlist #worldofmusic www.belgiantrain.be/en/about-snc...

Four benefits of going out in the rain Humans are more sensitive to the smell of rain than sharks are to blood. And rain has some surprising benefits for our bodies too – especially when it comes to our mood.

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

what1tune - Musical Addresses Maps Mania is a blog dedicated to tracking the very best digital interactive maps on the internet and the tools used to create them.

You hum it and I’ll ... find it! 🎶📍

what1tune - my new geohashing system turns every location into a unique tune.
googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2026/04/what...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Not ideal … www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Woman, 81, loses second Happisburgh home due to erosion Bryony Nierop-Reading says the loss of her new home has

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Trump administration will cure us of our woke obsession with…dry land.

Key ocean current is slowing at locations around the Atlantic Measurements by buoys at four latitudes in the western Atlantic provide the strongest evidence yet that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening

www.newscientist.com/article/2522...

On this day in 1913, the Society opened to Fellows at its new home, Lowther Lodge 🕰️

Originally the residence of the Lowther family, the house was later converted into the RGS headquarters. Over a century later, we're delighted to still welcome members and the public to our Kensington Gore building.

‘Suddenly, boom, it’s completely warm’: summers are getting longer – especially in Sydney, study finds Researchers examined trends in 10 global cities, with Sydney’s summer growing at two-and-a-half times the average

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Day 103 of #365DaysOfMaps. April 13th is Scrabble Day! Ian's built a classic interactive geo-scrabble game for today's map so don't be a consonant complainer and go enjoy a vowel movement or two.

International Scrabble Day 103/365

mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/04/happ...

Youngwilders Special Issue VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2 2026 ISSN 2634-4815 Pages: Editorial Essays This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

🐺 The new issue of #ROUTES is OUT NOW! 🐺

In this Special Issue, we have teamed up with youth-led nature recovery NGO, Youngwilders, to explore the relationship between young people and #rewilding

Read the full issue here: routesjournal.org/youngwilders...

@rgs.org @geographicalassoc.bsky.social

Discover Geography Empower students to understand and think like geographers with this complete and compelling geography curriculum supporting the KS3 Geography National Curriculum for England, Cambridge Lower Secondary...

This talk explores building a future-facing curriculum through:
– meaningful questions
– powerful knowledge
– place and enquiry

It’s also the thinking behind the Discover Geography series with @harpercollins.bsky.social.

collins.co.uk/collections/...

What’s the point? Creating a future-facing geography curriculum

What’s the point of geography?

I’ve been trying to answer this more precisely. Not in terms of content, but in terms of what geography allows pupils to do.

This was the focus of my @geographicalassoc.bsky.social conference talk.

open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...?

Wout van Aert outduels Tadej Pogacar to win his first Paris-Roubaix title The Belgian, who ended a decade-old run of bad luck in the event to triumph, said: ‘It’s everything to me … I stopped believing a lot of times’

Chapeaux also to Wout van Aert!! www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...