Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excited to say that the beautiful Guardian Long Read Magazine is out now, ft. work by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social, @imogenwk.bsky.social, @jackgoulder.bsky.social, @tessairini.bsky.social, @hettieobrien.bsky.social + many other brilliant writers. Order your copy here guardianbookshop.com/long-read-50...

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

This is a super interesting study of bird migration, and follows 3 specific birds on their journeys. Very beautifully visualised also. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new island erupted from the sea – can it show us how nature works without human interference? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a bleak fable www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fade to grey: as forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours

"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

beautiful photographs by Zed Nelson, on nature as spectacle: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Guardian editorial board: "on starvation in Gaza: it will take more than words to halt Israel’s genocide" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is very, very, scary news 😞 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: @phoebeweston.bsky.social on how the UK’s most beloved, iconic landscapes became biodiversity deserts www.theguardian.com/environment/...

in Ukraine’s bombed out reservoir, a huge forest has grown – is it a return to life or a toxic timebomb? the first of a new series we're launching, 'the aftermath', which looks at the complexity of how nature responds to transformation and catastrophe www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The web of life, evolved over countless aeons, being torn apart in our time. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🚨🚨🚨 Emmanuel Carrère on Emmanuel Macron 🚨🚨🚨 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

Women and girls in Tigray were gang raped by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers. Nail clippers, rusted screws and other objects were shoved up their vaginas with the intention of making them infertile. A horrific but must-read story by @ximenaborrazas.bsky.social and @tessairini.bsky.social

total horror is being inflicted on the women of tigray. here we document the attempts by soldiers to destroy their fertility, and their hopes for justice as most of the world looks away www.theguardian.com/global-devel... @ximenaborrazas.bsky.social

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

lots of great reporting and editing jobs going at the guardian in the US at the moment - a whole team of enterprise & investigative political reporters/editor, plus newsletters, arts editors, podcasting workforus.theguardian.com/search-jobs-... #journalismjobs #journojobs

“To mark the anniversary of the killings of Dom & Bruno, the Guardian – which is today launching a major investigative podcast series about the men called Missing in the Amazon – joined a gruelling week-long expedition in the rainforest” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

i wrote about the incredible die-offs that we are now seeing around the world in 'protected' places far from human touch - and about the people who are bearing witness to them www.theguardian.com/environment/...

last week i drove into the swiss alps to find what was left of Blatten, the village buried beneath a collapsing glacier - report here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'For now, the only version of Blatten village that exists is invisible, the village’s mayor, Matthias Bellwald, says, held in the minds of the people that have left. “We carry that with us very carefully, as a memory.”' @tessairini.bsky.social reports: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Gran Chaco forest is South America’s second largest after the Amazon. But vast green expanses – home to jaguars, giant armadillos and howler monkeys – have been turned to fields of dust as loggers plunder its trees. Dispatch 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/... @tessairini.bsky.social

this is wild: vehicle capacity of freeway lanes dropped 10 percent as SUVs took over the road -- not just bc they are bigger. they also take more time and space to slow down and obscure other drivers' sightlines. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In Honduras, standing up for the environment can be a death sentence. Juan Bautista Silva and his son, Juan Antonio Hernández, were brutally murdered while documenting illegal logging. The Guardian highlights land defenders' deadly risks in the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists.

‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest city. By @tracymcveigh.bsky.social in Ulaanbaatar www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Missed this, from @olliemilman.bsky.social, when it came out last week. It's a story that should be getting more attention, for all sorts of reasons, including the fact that the USDA is now crippled by cuts.

devastating story www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/w...

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Switzerland used to have some of the worst water quality in Europe: dead rats, sewage, algal blooms. Now, inner-city waterways are thronged with lunch-hour swimmers. Here's how they cleaned their rivers: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

Why fear of billion-dollar lawsuits stops countries phasing out fossil fuels

Fear of billion-dollar lawsuits is already stopping governments from phasing out fossil fuels. part three of our series on the ISDS system, which allows corporations to sue governments for legislation that hurts their profits www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Greenland democratically decided to block radioactive mining due to the environmental damage it causes. Litigation finance company Burford Capital saw the opportunity to profit, backing a case suing the country for $11 billion, more than its entire annual budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they are being sued to reopen their mine - or pay $11bn, nine times the island’s national budget. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking dot com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Most global conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, leaving critically important but less fashionable species deprived, a 25-year study has revealed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Extraordinary investigative report by Sirin Kale. I hope it finally leads to some police action and justice

A beautiful example of how plants and their associated microbes form a funcional unit. Without the right bacteria growing in its roots, there was little hope for the Easter Island's toromiro trees www.theguardian.com/environment/....

most of the places we tend to think of as pristine and untouched by humans have been occupied and transformed by people for tens of thousands of years www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The last fragments of ancient Irish rainforests may face a new threat … trees

I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!

‘My memories are crushed and buried’: a long walk home in Gaza

this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...

I wrote about why inside pristine, undisturbed, million-hectare stretches of the Amazon, birds have started dying www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Awe-inspiring and harrowing’: how two orcas with a taste for liver decimated the great white shark capital of the world really interesting case study of trophic cascade from @cooperpalaeo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the arctic has acted as a vast deep freezer for the world's carbon. now, as permafrost melts and forests burn, 40% of it has turned from carbon sink to carbon source www.theguardian.com/environment/...