Robin McKie
Reporter
About Robin McKie
Robin McKie is science and environment editor for the Observer
How do you stop a glacier from melting? Put up an underwater curtain
Scientists believe a 100-kilometre-long curtain moored to the bed of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica could prevent catastrophic flooding elsewhere.
Why don’t whales get cancer?
Understanding why some animals are more susceptible to the disease could lead to improved screening for humans.
‘Holy grail’ wheat gene find could feed our overheated world
Harvests that form a vital element of the diets of 4.5 billion people are being devastated by global heating. Now research has found a key to create a heat-resistant variety.
How a British millionaire is rewilding the countryside, one farm at a time
Julia Davies, a lawyer turned activist, is helping wildlife groups to buy up land — and fight back against Britain’s biodiversity crisis.
Disinformation jeopardizing climate change fight
Royal Swedish Academy of Science report says steps to address climate change will be hard to enforce if they continue to suffer targeted attacks in social media
We must change food production to save the world, says leaked report
A leaked draft of a report on climate change and land use, which is now being debated in Geneva by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), states that it will be impossible to keep global temperatures at safe levels unless there is also a transformation in the way the world produces food and manages land.