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Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor is an environment correspondent for the Guardian

June 2026

  • An octopus with mottled orange and grey skin rests on encrusted rocks among kelp underwater

    Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds

    Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches booming

May 2026

  • Zoë Garbett sits at a polished desk in an office with wood-paneled walls

    ‘Everything I do has climate at its centre’: Hackney’s first Green mayor gets to work

    After the initial euphoria of victory, Zoë Garbett prepares to begin running one of England’s most diverse and deprived boroughs
  • a grey and white cat on a vet's inspection table

    Toxic chemicals in pet flea treatments harming wildlife, UK study warns

    Flea treatment chemicals fipronil and imidacloprid also implicated in lower cognitive scores in children with autism

    • Ban private jets and cut speed limits to avert UK fuel crisis, say campaigners

    • ‘London is a case study in hope’: Sadiq Khan on 10 years as mayor

    • The slow lane
      ‘A long road ahead’: could community car-sharing help UK hit climate targets?

April 2026

  • The coastal village of Finstown seen from the sky

    More than 15m oysters to be released in the North Sea for UK rewilding project

    Exclusive: Experts say scheme will help repair damaged marine ecosystems while sequestering large amounts of carbon

March 2026

  • An oil rig structure in a harbour.

    More drilling in North Sea ‘not the answer’ for UK energy security, say former military leaders

  • The sun rises behind an oil platform.

    Hundreds of North Sea licences granted by Tories ‘produce only 36 days of gas’

  • A woman with shopping bags walks down a street of terrace housing

    ‘Seriously wrong’: flood-hit Lincolnshire residents at odds with Reform MP over climate

  • Aerial view of wind turbines and clusters of houses with their lights on at dusk

    Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200, thinktank says

  • UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say

  • Beyond growth
    Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert

February 2026

  • Yuan Yang

    Beyond growth
    Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught

  • Guterres holds his hand up while speaking during a press conference in New York.

    Beyond growth
    Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

January 2026

  • Two women dressed as 'greenwashing' cleaners outside the museum's entrance

    BP accused of ‘insidious’ influence on UK education through Science Museum links

    Campaigners claim firm has bought sway over the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths

December 2025

  • Students seen from behind at their graduation ceremony.

    Eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with fossil fuel industry

  • Aerial view of brine ponds and processing areas of a lithium mine

    Global race to secure critical minerals for weapons threatens climate, warns report

November 2025

  • Aerial view of smoke rising from a huge area of the health and blowing across fields and roads

    UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show

  • People perform during the “people's plenary” at Cop30 in Brazil

    Cop30: countries still far apart as climate talks overrun – as it happened

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