Amazon-based author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock. Global environment writer @Guardian. Founder @Sumaumajornal & @Amazon_RJF. Mostly on BlueSky 🦋
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This is the week! After four years’s of research and writing, my book, The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory finally hits the shelves.
It explores a century of science and environmental thinking through the life and relationships of one man... 🧵
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Eminently do-able - UK grid upgrades represent investment in the future and will bring down costs as well as emissions, by @alex_j_clark and colleagues theguardian.com/business/ng-…
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RIP Paul Brown, a mentor, friend and journalistic hero.
Quiet-spoken but dogged, he was an inspiration for me and so many other environmental reporters.
He and John Vidal pioneered coverage of the climate, nature and energy at The Guardian.
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Paul Brown filed the last of his many thousands of Guardian stories from a hospital bed. It was a typically trenchant reflection on his decades covering the environment that ended with a critique of the nuclear industry, a subject close to his heart.
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What an incredible human being.
RIP Dolly Parton.
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“This may be the best biography I’ve ever read”
A selection of goodreads reviews of The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory.
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Threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to permafrost
Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds
Latest Q&A by me in tipping point series.
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The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost via @jonathanwatts @guardian
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#ClimateRisks #ClimateChange #Permafrost #Methane #Carbon
@PIK_Climate @fionaharvey @YaleE360 @YaleClimateComm @insideclimate
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‘The obsession with endless growth can only end in tears’: your questions on extreme weather this summer answered
From Europe’s deadly heat to floods in Asia, it’s been a terrifying summer. Environment writers share causes for concern and hope.
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To say we should enjoy climate breakdown is a totally ignorant misunderstanding, or if not then a cynical misrepresentation, of the science, which clearly tells us things get far, far worse from here: it will not be “enjoyable” and will destroy our economy telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026…
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This is so important. We could tell tech companies to use data centre designs that don’t require water for cooling. But we don’t. Why are we so scared of regulating them properly?
Data centers don’t “need” water. Billion-dollar corporations just need the cheapest cooling method available and apparently your town’s drinking supply is cheaper than redesigning the damn system.
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Trump and the Far Right are being fuelled by fossil money to hold back the tide of the energy transition.
I eleborate on this theory in the attached interview with Bob Grove of Climate Hour.
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Masked gunmen invade Amazon communities in organised crime surge, say local leaders
Delegation sent to Brasília after ‘assassins’ enter indigenous homes near Brazil’s border with Peru
Story by me on narco-gang threat to rainforest and its people.
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Myth buster: Heatwaves and climate
I channel 13 sceptic doubts
The great Ed Hawkins bats each away with aplomb.
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Fuel on the fire
As the world swelters in ever more dangerous heat, why are oil companies being allowed to turn up the gas instead of paying for the consequences of their greed?
My column on Big Oil’s mad, bad plan to increase production.
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This 👇 updated guide to Uzbekistan will be masterful. How do I know? Because I visited Samarkand with the author, Calum Macleod.
History made! ⚽🇺🇿
As the White Wolves play in their first-ever #WorldCup, are you ready to explore their stunning homeland? 🐺
Discover #Uzbekistan with the most detailed guidebook to the country ever written. Published today! 👇 (1/3)
#Samarkand #SilkRoad #TravelGuide
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Welcome to Trump’s World Cup, a depressingly angry version of football uniting the planet | Barney Ronay theguardian.com/football/202…
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Must read piece on climate inequalities and how to solve them, by @jonathanwatts theguardian.com/environment/…
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Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says.
Need for minerals, biofuels and pulp adding to pressures from ranching, monocrops, oil and logging, analysis finds
Story by me.
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Fossil fascism is here
My take on capture of US state by oil, gas & coal interests and what this means for the world.
Having lost the science, moral and economic argument, they are trying to halt energy transition using military power and lies
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