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Jonathan Watts

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Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's global environment writer. Twitter @jonathanwatts

June 2026

  • Aerial image shows Kya Sands (left) and Bloubosrand (right) in Johannesburg, South Africa.

    ‘Happiness is not just about GDP’: ambitious plan or utopia?

  • A globe in front of scenes from around the world

    ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival

May 2026

  • A demonstrator reacts after police used riot control agents at Town Hall Square during a protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog's state visit to Australia

    Record number of complaints to police watchdog after Herzog protest – as it happened

  • Mozambique spitting cobra ejects venom into the air while being coiled on the ground

    Risk of snakebites increasing as reptiles adapt to changing world, says study

  • Susana Muhamad gestures with her hand while speaking at a microphone

    Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle

  • Aerial view of a large open-pit iron ore mine with terraced red earth excavations beside dense rainforest

    Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says

  • The featured essay
    The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly

  • ‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday

  • Science Weekly
    ‘Historic breakthrough’: could the fossil fuel era be coming to an end? – podcast

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  • Could Santa Marta climate talks mark ground zero in push to ditch fossil fuels?

  • Hope is contagious and science is king: 10 big lessons on ending the fossil fuel era

April 2026

  • Colombia's environment minister, Irene Vélez Torres, (left) with her Netherlands counterpart, Stientje van Veldhoven, at the climate conference in Santa Marta.

    ‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes raised for fossil fuel phaseout

  • President Gustavo Petro (C), Colombia's environment minister Irene Velez (L) and Dutch Minister of Climate and Green Growth Stientje van Veldhoven attend the International Conference seated beneath a giant mural

    ‘Suicidal’ model of capitalism leading to war and fascism, climate summit told

  • Red oil barrels stacked up on a beach with a container ship in the background

    Middle East crisis could cost world $1tn while oil firms make ‘obscene’ profit, analysis finds

  • Exhausted looking miners sit below an excavated cliff strewn with sacks.

    Clean energy switch must not be excuse to plunder Indigenous lands, say leaders

  • New global panel aims to accelerate move away from fossil fuels

  • How frustration at Cop stalemates inspires first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels

  • The no-go zone paradox: Chornobyl’s wildlife thrives amid pro-nuclear shift

  • Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock

March 2026

  • Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland.

    What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?

    When James Prescott Joule lent his name to a unit of energy, he could not have foreseen today’s alarming calculations
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