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“…if you go down to the woods today…”

In this photo essay, Ted Leeming explores current forestry policy, practices and management in the UK & Scotland in 2023.
J Norman Collie: from a chemistry lab to the Columbian Icefield

RSGS Writer-in-Residence reflects on the life of climber and pioneering chemist J Norman Collie, who made the first neon display tubes.
Alice Roberts: Ancestors

Anthropologist and presenter Professor Alice Roberts will be speaking at the University of Strathclyde on Saturday 20th January for her talk titled “Ancestors”, based on her book of the same name.
Beyond the Map Podcast

In a new podcast titled Beyond the Map, Professor Jo Sharp looks beyond the obvious to understand the hidden geographies that make our world.

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Professor Roger Crofts CBE FRSGS: The Future of Trees HELENSBURGH

Roger Crofts celebrates the role of trees in our lives, and considers how to ensure that we have well-maintained trees, woods and forests.
Professor Roger Crofts CBE FRSGS: The Future of Trees AYR

Roger Crofts celebrates the role of trees in our lives, and considers how to ensure that we have well-maintained trees, woods and forests.
Ruth Nyakerario: Becoming Through Creative Expression BORDERS

A Kenyan mountaineer, creative writer and teacher, Ruth Nyakerario is an adventurer at heart, in pursuit of a deeper connection with both nature and people.
Ruth Nyakerario: Becoming Through Creative Expression DUMFRIES

A Kenyan mountaineer, creative writer and teacher, Ruth Nyakerario is an adventurer at heart, in pursuit of a deeper connection with both nature and people.
Shahbaz Majeed: My Scotland, My Journey STIRLING

Award-winning landscape and aerial photographer Shahbaz Majeed takes us on a spectacular visual journey to show Scotland from a different perspective.
Shahbaz Majeed: My Scotland, My Journey PERTH

Award-winning landscape and aerial photographer Shahbaz Majeed takes us on a spectacular visual journey to show Scotland from a different perspective.
Shahbaz Majeed: My Scotland, My Journey INVERNESS

Award-winning landscape and aerial photographer Shahbaz Majeed takes us on a spectacular visual journey to show Scotland from a different perspective.
Kate Rawles The Life Cycle: Adventure in the Andes EDINBURGH

Kate Rawles’s most recent ‘adventure plus’ involved cycling the length of South America, from the Pacific Ocean to rainforests and salt flats, on a bamboo bike she built herself.
Kate Rawles The Life Cycle: Adventure in the Andes GLASGOW

Kate Rawles’s most recent ‘adventure plus’ involved cycling the length of South America, from the Pacific Ocean to rainforests and salt flats, on a bamboo bike she built herself.
Kate Rawles The Life Cycle: Adventure in the Andes DUNFERMLINE

Kate Rawles’s most recent ‘adventure plus’ involved cycling the length of South America, from the Pacific Ocean to rainforests and salt flats, on a bamboo bike she built herself.

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