Climate change
Why won’t Chris Packham have a real debate on climate?
On Sunday, the BBC did something unusual. It invited Luke Johnson, a climate contrarian, to join a panel with Laura…
In the grip of apocalypse angst
Dorian Lynskey lays out the many ways in which we have imagined the world ending – through pandemic, nuclear holocaust, climate change, asteroid impact or, most unnervingly, AI
Real life
‘They’re going to have to stop cows,’ said my mother, looking doubtfully down at her plate as we tucked into…
Who fact checks the fact-checkers?
Last week, a retired physics professor called Nick Cowern said it was time to get tough with ‘climate denialists’. ‘In…
Cool it
he new head of the IPCC on the need to move beyond eco alarmism
Towering infernos
Our unpreparedness was vividly illustrated by the catastrophic Canadian inferno of 2016 – originally judged a minor brushfire beyond Fort McMurray’s city limits
The big beast in peril
As the world’s thermometer, the ocean keeps everything in balance, but carbon emissions and our use of it as a dumping ground is threatening its life, says Helen Czerski
Airheads
The arrogance of the ‘Tyre Extinguishers’
The inconvenient truth about France’s forest fires
Montpellier Last month the Prime Minister of France, Elisabeth Borne, visited the south-west of the country to offer her support…
How did climate doomsters get the Great Barrier Reef so wrong?
We are, of course, in the midst of a ‘climate emergency’ and the ‘sixth mass extinction’ of life on Earth.…
Real life
Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a…
Wild life
Laikipia You know things are bad when the zebras are thin. Even during most droughts, zebras are like matrons at…
Carbon paper
The new GCSE in global warming
Be a self-sacrificing ant
One day the writer and artist James Bridle rented a hatchback, taped a smartphone to the steering wheel and installed…
It’s time to clamp down on militant protesters
The right to protest against the policies of the government of the day, the system in general or even just…
The kids aren’t all right – and the grown-ups are to blame
I think it’s time we stopped scaring the children. I think they’ve had enough. They’re at breaking point now, every…
Watching the clock
Having just dusted down my Geiger counter and argued with the family about whether or not there is room for…
Storm Eunice has nothing to do with climate change
I sat tight and braced myself for the worst this morning — not high winds but for the Today programme…
Coming up roses
Kenya’s flower growers have a busy time ahead
Doom-mongers can be funny too
I wasn’t looking forward to seeing Don’t Look Up, the new satirical film on Netflix. It’s about a couple of…
The trees are on the move
Covering 20 per cent of the Earth’s surface, the boreal forest is the largest living system, or ‘biome’, on land.…
Chief Rabbi’s Notebook
Reactions to the recent passing of F.W. de Klerk transported me back to my childhood in South Africa. The horror…
Guilt-free hilarity
World-class sex bomb Janie Dee stars in a fabulously silly revival of the American comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha…
Insulate Britain are not martyrs
Throughout the Insulate Britain protests there was a suspicion that the group was deliberately trying to get its members behind…
