ASIAN Geographic

ASIAN Geographic is the bi-monthly magazine that scours the region to bring readers the most compelling stories and images from the world's largest and most diverse continent. Readers enjoy a unique melting pot of breathtaking photography and in-depth features covering culture, nature, sustainability issues and exploration into the history of this diverse region. A regular 'Exploration' segment follows brave field editors as they travel deep into Asia's unexplored regions to take readers on a journey.

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Colours & Celebrations • Collect All Our Timeless Colour Editions and Our Special Silver Jubilee Edition!

Green Dreams • With its tea plantations and rice paddies, dense jungles and expansive forests, the region is well known as a green paradise. But many of the most impressive Asian landscapes have names you may never have heard of. Journey with us as we reveal just some of the incredible locations that make the rest of the world green with envy!

Why so Green? • From the Green Dome of the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina to the fluorescent greens of flags and political campaigns, Islam has established itself as the world’s “green” religion

Asia: The Muslim Continent

The Karakoram Anomaly Decoded • For decades, scientists have believed that glaciers in the Karakoram Range are defying the trend of those across the globe – resisting glacial melt due to human-induced global warming. But as we trek up the Karakoram’s second-longest glacier in July, as the United Nations announces the world’s hottest ever month on record, does the melting ice beneath our feet suggest the so-called Karakoram Anomaly is slowing? Or is there a ray of hope it will continue to delay the inevitable?

Where Is the Karakoram?

World Glacier Facts and Predictions

Top 10 Highest Peaks in the Karakoram Range • The Karakoram Range contains 18 peaks higher than 7,500 metres, many of which can been seen from the amphitheatre of Concordia

Life on the Edge • In the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in the remote northern Russian Far East, indigenous ethnic groups like the Chukchi and the Yupik live in the most extreme conditions, hunting seals in their traditional kayaks as they have for millennia

Changing Chukotka • Climate change is already having a profound effect on the indigenous inhabitants of Chukotka, melting the permafrost, altering the coastline, and forcing marine species to relocate northwards

Green Water Revolution • Southeast Asia’s Quest to Sustainable Wastewater Management in an Era of Climate Sensitivity

Progress Towards the “Green” Sustainable Development Goals

Green Mountain • You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows downstream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

Passport Green Philippines • The Philippine Archipelago may be synonymous with perfect beach holidays, but the Southeast Asian nation is also a great choice for your next ecotourism adventure

Conservation Photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen Partner with Rolex as Part of Its Perpetual Planet Initiative • At the end of 2022, Rolex announced a new collaboration with world-renowned conservation photographers Cristina Mittermeier and Paul Nicklen. This new addition to the Perpetual Planet Initiative further strengthens and embraces its growing pool of partnerships and projects. Rolex supports Mittermeier and Nicklen in their tireless work, highlighting the issues facing the world’s oceans and inspiring positive action.

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