Across the world, journalists are under threat for sharing the truth. Killings of reporters last year rose to the highest level since 2015.

My take on the need to value journalism ahead of World Press Freedom Day. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Labour says UK nature under threat and pledges to halt decline | Green politics | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…

Nature destruction will cause bigger economic slump in UK than 2008 crisis, experts warn theguardian.com/environment/20…

Elon Musk’s X accused of conducting “a coordinated operation against democracy”. US billionaire supports former president Jair Bolsonaro against the judge who is investigating his alleged crimes.

Story by ⁦Tom Phillips⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

This is a *really* great pledge by Sadiq Khan - to make the Thames (and all London rivers) clean enough to wild swim in.

Other mayors & candidates take note: access to clean rivers needs to become the norm in England

Right to Roam

thetimes.co.uk/article/sadiq-…

The BBC once again both sidesing climate science by putting up unqualified bakery owner Luke Johnson to argue the 'other side'.

A radical British politics rooted in nature is spreading – and the establishment doesn’t like it | John Harris. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'The restoration of nature is the work of this century.' Wild Service calls for a new relationship with the natural world, combining conservation science with the fun of festivals, Indigenous traditions and church services. theguardian.com/environment/20… Story by Patrick Barkham

Deadly heatwave that filled hospitals and mortuaries in the Sahel would have been impossible without human-caused climate disruption, a new analysis has revealed.

Story by me. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Climate crisis: average world incomes to drop by nearly a fifth by 2050

Cost of environmental damage will be six times higher than price of limiting global heating to 2C, study finds

Story by me. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Silent Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter as wildlife disappears.

Phoebe Weston listens to biodiversity collapse. theguardian.com/environment/20…

UK accused of double counting £500m of aid to meet climate pledge theguardian.com/global-develop…

He led Brazil’s Black sailors in mutiny to resist abuse. A hundred years later campaigners are calling for ‘Black Admiral’ João Cândido to be recognised as a Hero of the Nation.

By ⁦Tiago Rogero⁩ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

“I suspect vote rigging by blackbirds, badgers and moles.” Chris Packham weighs in on the squirming victor of the UK Invertebrate of the Year election.

“A full AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster”, says #AMOC expert Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 in chilling analysis.

Thirty years ago the world failed to stop the Rwandan genocide. Now we fail Gaza.

Veteran Africa and Middle East correspondent Chris McGreal draws uncomfortable comparisons for leaders in the US and Europe.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Tenth consecutive monthly heat record alarms and confounds climate scientists
If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert theguardian.com/global/2024/ap…
Story by me.

Human rights violated by inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case theguardian.com/environment/20… Story by Ajit Niranjan

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of climate catastrophe theguardian.com/environment/20…

A growing body of research shows that old-growth redwoods store more carbon than any other forest on Earth.

But the redwoods have been decimated by logging.

We must restore old-growth redwood forests, John Reid writes.
e360.yale.edu/features/redwo…