Jonathan Watts
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About Jonathan Watts
Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's global environment editor.
Swiss call on UN to explore possibility of solar geoengineering
The proposal focuses on a technique that fills the atmosphere with particles, reflecting part of the sun’s heat and light into space.
The Earth’s health failing in seven out of eight key measures
A new groundbreaking analysis of safety and justice hopes to inform the next generation of sustainability policy.
Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 — and three to be petrified
The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for the world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous.
Canada is trying to water down forestry trade regulations, leaked letter alleges
Weeks before the United Nations biodiversity conference, COP15 in Montreal, the host nation sent a letter to the European Commission asking for a reconsideration of “burdensome traceability requirements” within a proposed EU scheme that aims to eradicate unsustainably sourced wood products from the world’s biggest market.
How will Earth handle the global glacial meltdown?
Mountain glacier melt contributes more than a quarter of extra volume to the world’s oceans, disrupting ancient cycles of creation.
Five post-Trump obstacles standing in the way of a global green recovery
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s win gives the globe a better chance of averting climate catastrophe, but major obstacles remain.
Alarms sound as Arctic sea ice remains unfrozen at latest date on record
Delayed freeze in Laptev Sea could have knock-on effects across polar region, scientists say
Microplastic pollution devastating soil species
Researchers in China saw big reductions in organisms that play a crucial role in recycling carbon and nitrogen
Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the climate crisis
Rightwing governments have denied the problem and been slow to act. With coronavirus and the climate, this costs lives
Fossil fuel companies have had even worse impact on climate change than you thought
Study indicates human fossil methane emissions have been underestimated by up to 40%