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ATLASES
Since its last edition, the Times Atlas has had to make 3,000 place name revisions, the number of ‘mega cities’ with a population of ten million or more has risen to around twenty and coast lines such as those of China and Bangladesh have altered as a result of man’s manipulating river systems. Climate change has also wrought changes such as the shrinking of vast lakes like the Aral Sea and Lake Chad.

John McCarthy finds out what goes into the making of the atlas, where the statistics come from to draw the maps, and what new kinds of information they show. He is joined by Mick Ashworth, the Editor in Chief of the latest edition of TheTimes Comprehensive Atlasof the World , and Jethro Lennox, its Publishing Editor.

WILDLIFE EXTINCTION
Mike Unwin and Terry Glavin are two writers who have travelled in search of wildlife at the point of extinction. Could an increase in the numbers of tourists travelling to see these creatures help or hinder their conservation?