Journalist, Dan Box was the 2009 winner of the BBC/Royal Geographical Society's annual competition for the best dream travel idea. His ‘Journey of a Lifetime’ took him to the Carteret islands in the South Pacific, where the inhabitants, faced with worsening environmental conditions are undergoing an organised relocation. The low-lying islands (w... Read more >>

Following the recent announcement by the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), we have redrawn our Times atlas map of the Arctic and added the ice coverage to the Arctic Ocean. This year’s sea-ice level is the second lowest ever recorded in the Arctic Ocean, after the 2007 record low. The red line on the map shows the sea ice minimum exte... Read more >>

World Environment Day, commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. New editions of our maps and atlases reveal unequivocally how climate extremes are changing the face of the planet forever. “W... Read more >>