CONTENTSJune 2024 • Volume 96 • Issue 6

COVER STORY

32FIGHTINGFOR THE FOREST Graeme Greene interviews Indigenous Amazon activist Nemonte Nenquimo

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SUMMIT FEVER Are mountains to be conquered or simply enjoyed, asks author Dawn Hollis

ISLE OF WIGHT Mark Rowe’s travel guide to the once traditional bucket-and-spade resort that’s rapidly becoming much more about boots and bikes

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ANOTHER WORLD Paul Jepson on how Antarctica could become the template for how we treat the natural world

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VARANASI The dark side to India’s City of Light. Stuart Butler reports on the citiy’s problems with human trafficking

DEPARTMENTSWORLDWATCH 6 Bacterial resistance 8 Data centres 10 Research round-up 12 Phenomena: Blood Falls 14 Geo-graphic: Olympics

WORLDVIEW 16 Is climate change our moonshot? 19 Geopolitics: Tim Marshall on world poverty 20 Climatewatch: Learning from a dystopian novel

REGULARS 54 Gallery: Christopher Payne 60 Book reviews 65 Equipment matters 75 Discovering Britain 76 In Society. RGS-IBG events 79 RGS-IBG Archive 80 Where in the world? 81 Crossword 82 Passport: Ryan Ahlgren

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