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Geography Expert
My geography podcasts on Geography Expert will cover a range of geographical topics which might be of interest to teachers and students of geography.
Topics may vary from Polar geography to marine geography, and from population geography to rural geography. You can also see similar topics on my Geography Expert Substack Geography Expert Substack | Ritchie Cunningham | Substack
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Episodes
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Iceland a strategic location
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The Hidden Geography of a Car
Send us Fan Mail Let’s explore the hidden world behind every car on the road. The Myth: “One Company Makes the Whole Car” In the past, manufacturing seemed…
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Holding Back Coastal Erosion
Send us Fan Mail Fighting the Sea: How Do We Hold Back Coastal Erosion? Hello and welcome to the Geography Expert podcast that helps you understand the world…
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The World Is Changing — And So Is Migration
Send us Fan Mail Today we’re talking about one of the biggest shifts happening on our planet right now. It’s not AI, it’s not politics… it’s people. Where…
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Soil: More Than Dirt
Send us Fan Mail It’s more than just dirt… When you walk to school, play football or sit in a park, you probably don’t think much about the soil beneath your…
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The Geography of Mosquitoes: A Tiny Insect Changing the Map
Send us Fan Mail The mosquito story isn't just about insects. It’s about climate change, globalisation, migration, disease, transport and the way humans are…
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Food Systems Under Siege
Send us Fan Mail Food security begins long before food reaches the supermarket When people hear the term food security, they often think about whether enough…
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Why Uganda Matters in Global Migration
Send us Fan Mail Uganda: A Migration Superpower You Don’t Expect When people think about major migration destinations, they usually imagine places like Europe…
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Uganda's Migration Blueprint
Send us Fan Mail Migration is the movement of people from one place to another. It can be voluntary, such as moving to find work or education, or forced, when…
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The Mindanao Megaquake — What Geography Can Tell Us
Send us Fan Mail A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck southern Mindanao in the Philippines. It’s a powerful example of how physical geography, human…
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Earthquake in southern Philippines
Send us Fan Mail The Philippines lies between several moving tectonic plates, which makes earthquakes very common. To the east, the Philippine Sea Plate is…
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When One Disaster becomes Five
Send us Fan Mail Cascading Disasters 1. Hazard Examples: conflict, drought, flooding, or disruption to shipping. Icon: lightning bolt or explosion symbol over…
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Cities That Are Sinking
Send us Fan Mail Bangkok is sinking. So are Jakarta, New Orleans, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, and dozens of other delta metropolises around the world. Thai…
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Ceuta, Spain and the EU
Send us Fan Mail How can immigration policy in one small Spanish territory affect relations between Spain, Morocco and the wider European Union? At first…
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Europe’s Wildfire Wake-Up Call
Send us Fan Mail 2026: Europe’s Record-Breaking Fire Season By 29 July 2026, France had already burned 91,000 hectares — smashing its previous full‑season…
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Wildfires at Every Scale
Send us Fan Mail 2026: A Record-Breaking Summer, and It’s Only Halfway Done Let’s start with the raw numbers, because they’re genuinely eye-popping. By 29 July…
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Why Yemen’s Location Shapes Global Power
Send us Fan Mail “Why Yemen’s Location Shapes Global Power” Hey everyone — today we’re diving into a place that doesn’t often make the headlines in your world…
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Global Food Uncovered
Send us Fan Mail Food is one of the most familiar parts of our daily lives, but behind every banana, chocolate bar, or carton of orange juice lies a story of…
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Understanding Migration
Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about something that touches almost every corner of the modern world, whether we notice it or not: human migration. Why do…
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Why People Move
Send us Fan Mail One of the most useful ways to understand migration is through the push-pull model. Push factors are conditions that encourage or force people…
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“A Giant Vacuum Cleaner for the Sky”
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The Earth's moving puzzle
Send us Fan Mail Understanding the forces that shape our planet The Earth may appear solid and stable beneath our feet, but in reality it is constantly moving…
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El Niño Unpacked
Send us Fan Mail Imagine a change in ocean temperatures thousands of kilometres away causing floods in South America, droughts in Australia, crop failures in…
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La Niña Decoded
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Ageing Populations and the Old‑Age Dependency Ratio
Send us Fan Mail Hello and welcome back to the Geography Expert podcast. Today we’re exploring one of the most important demographic challenges facing modern…
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Mangroves are back!
Send us Fan Mail Mangrove Forests: The Amazing Comeback of Nature's Coastal Guardians Imagine a forest that can protect people from tsunamis, provide homes for…
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The Hunger Gap — How Climate Change Threatens Food Security
Send us Fan Mail Today we're talking about something that touches almost every corner of the modern world, The Hunger Gap — How Climate Change Threatens Food…
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Bhutan's Population Crisis
Send us Fan Mail Bhutan, a small Himalayan country between India and China, is trying to encourage families to have more children. The government has announced…
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Landscapes Built From Below
Send us Fan Mail External weathering and erosion processes gradually become the dominant factors in the development of the landscape as tectonic activity…
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Banda's Burning Crisis
Send us Fan Mail In May 2026, the district of Banda in northern India experienced temperatures of 47–48°C, making it one of the hottest places in the country…
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China's Road to the Top
Send us Fan Mail In 2000, almost every one of the world’s ten biggest carmakers came from Japan, Europe or North America. By 2025, China had become the world’s…
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Why Hurricanes Went Quiet
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve been half-listening to the news this summer, you might have noticed something odd: hurricane season is underway, but the Atlantic…
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Mountains Are Breaking Down
Send us Fan Mail Climate change, landslides, and the science of predicting disasters Imagine standing beside a beautiful glacier lake in Alaska. Tour boats…
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A Deep Earthquake Beneath Italy
Send us Fan Mail Just after midnight on 2 June 2026, a magnitude 6.26.2 earthquake struck deep beneath the sea off southern Italy. Although this sounds…
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Why Your Electricity Bill Lies
Send us Fan Mail If Germany is such a leader in renewable energy, why are electricity bills still so high there? And why do France and Spain often have cheaper…
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The EV transition
Send us Fan Mail Electric cars are becoming a big part of the global shift away from fossil fuels. In 2025, about one in four new cars sold worldwide was…
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Why Cities Need Trees
Send us Fan Mail Picture two places on a hot summer day. One is a city full of roads, rooftops, and concrete. The other is full of trees, grass, and shade…
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Ebola in Central Africa
Send us Fan Mail When you hear the word Ebola, you probably think of a deadly disease — and that’s because it is. But Ebola is also a geography story. It’s…
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Aerosols, Climate Change, and Marine Cloud Brightening
Send us Fan Mail When people talk about climate change, they usually focus on carbon dioxide. And that makes sense — CO₂ traps heat and drives global warming…
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Rivers: Erosion, Transport and Deposition
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The Numbers That Shape the World
Send us Fan Mail What matters more is where those people live… how populations grow… and why some places are booming while others are shrinking. Because…
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Glacial Deposition
Send us Fan Mail Imagine a glacier the size of a city… slowly bulldozing its way across the landscape. What kind of mess does it leave behind? Because here’s…
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Rethinking Urban Infrastructure
Send us Fan Mail You flush a toilet, turn on a tap, or throw something in the bin… and then you stop thinking about it completely. For many people…
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Understanding Earthquakes
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Glacial Erosion
Send us Fan Mail Support the show Check out my website, Facebook groups and other social media. www.ritchiecunningham.com Geography Expert Substack | Ritchie…
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Mass Movement and Slopes
Send us Fan Mail Imagine standing on a hillside after heavy rain. The ground looks stable enough at first glance, but deep inside the slope, things are…
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Glaciation an Introduction
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Is fertility collapse changing the world?
Send us Fan Mail From Baby Boom to Baby Bust For most of the 20th century, population debates focused on rapid growth, “overpopulation” and pressure on…
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Patterns in Mortality
Send us Fan Mail As countries become richer and improve living conditions, they move from a pattern dominated by infectious diseases and high mortality to one…
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Measuring Population Change
Send us Fan Mail Geographers measure population change by looking at how many people are born, how many die, and how many move in or out of a place. In other…
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World Population Change
Send us Fan Mail For much of recent history, people have equated population change with population growth. Over the last two centuries, global population has…
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Critical Thinking in Geography
Send us Fan Mail Critical thinking in geography means slowing down, asking sharp questions about places and patterns, and using evidence and logic (not just…
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Why study Geography
Send us Fan Mail The world of work is changing fast. New jobs pop up overnight. Others disappear just as quickly. You’re constantly hearing that AI is…
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What will happen to green energy use in the future?
Send us Fan Mail The mainstream media always seems keen to talk down “Green Energy” and expects us to believe that “Fossil Fuels” will not only be dominant but…
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Tropical Cyclones
Send us Fan Mail Tropical cyclones are powerful weather systems that develop over warm tropical and subtropical oceans. They are associated with extremely low…
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The Industrial System
Send us Fan Mail The industrial system The industrial system is a multifaceted web of economic activities and processes dedicated to the large-scale…
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Counter-urbanisation
Send us Fan Mail Counter-urbanisation, also known as de-urbanisation, refers to the movement of people and economic activities away from major cities and into…
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Urbanisation in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Send us Fan Mail Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a country’s population comes to live in towns and cities rather than in rural…
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Moisture in the air
Send us Fan Mail Moisture in the Air - From Invisible Vapour to Wild Weather Atmospheric moisture is all about how water moves between the surface and the air…
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Impacts of Changing Precipitation on Hydrological Processes in Different Types of Drainage Basins
Send us Fan Mail Climate change is now widely accepted as one of the biggest global challenges, influencing not only temperatures but also how water moves…