Image by me. Hand-drawn and then photo-filtered, NOT AI. For some time, my body has felt a visceral judder of injustice whenever the word “wildfire” is used across our ever-increasing m…

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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From cabinet members to editors to thinktanks, it’s an in-crowd far more united than they’d have you believe

Image by me. Hand-drawn and then photo-filtered, NOT AI. For some time, my body has felt a visceral judder of injustice whenever the word “wildfire” is used across our ever-increasing m…

Credit: Hansen, et al (2025) Please click Surgence is an old English word rarely used, but I wish to bring it back in the context of Earth’s Climate. Surge ~ from Latin surgere “to rise…

Sometimes, the tragedy is in words.  Caroline Lucas’s latest series for “The Rest is Politics” podcast is a case in point: “When Nature becomes a Security Threat.&#8221…

Abby Neve An exhibition of images of hand embroidered tapestries documenting devastation in Gaza has made its debut in Wales at the National Eisteddfod. The exhibition was presented by Palestine Solid...

Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England * UK politics live – latest updates * Business live – latest updates A US private equity firm will take control of NHS patient records in a deal experts say should “ring alarm bells” amid concerns sensitive health data is increasingly being handed to private companies. The investment firm TPG has bought Optum UK, the healthcare technology business behind the electronic patient record system used by most GP practices in England, in a deal worth about $400m (£300m). Continue reading...

A new rule rescinds the definition of what it means to “harm” a plant or animal under the Endangered Species Act and could lead to more habitat destruction.

A new study shows that female academics have disproportionately fewer Twitter followers, likes and retweets than men, regardless of their professional rank or amount of activity on Twitter. Brooke Eri...

Read my entry for the 2024 Common Ground Nature Writing Prize

Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules, in undercover footage recorded by Guardian

With temperatures soaring across Europe, WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge has called on governments to recognise extreme heat as a health crisis and strengthen health system preparedness.

Note: The excerpt of the report is reproduced below; footnotes have been omitted from this post and are available in the original PDF report. 18 June 2026 “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”...

The now ex-foreign secretary set out the government’s position in a letter shortly before being ousted in a reshuffle

This biography of writer, translator, teacher, and feministAda Gobetti, the first in English or Italian, frames her activismin the Resistenza as a chapter in a ...

“Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire.” ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road Humans have been blazing trails for millenn…

As the world tries to curb human-caused climate change and not run dry of water, every online query is increasing our environmental footprint and exacerbating the problem.

Women are presidents or heads of government in only 28 of the world’s 195 countries, and 101 states have never had a female leader.

Together my best friend Annabel Rook and I worked to support victims of gender-based violence – until she became one herself. Now I feel like a part of myself has been erased. Why aren’t more people o...