Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
Print subscriptions
Newsletters
Sign in

Paul Brown

Headshot of Paul Brown

Paul Brown is a former environment correspondent of the Guardian who writes books and teaches journalism

November 2025

  • Paul Brown with his solar panels in the background

    ‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer

  • Delegates at the first UN climate conference in 1995

    Weatherwatch
    As I write my last column, the facts on climate crisis speak for themselves

  • The ski slopes of Les Crosets, Switzerland

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: reduced European snowfall spells disaster for skiing

  • A queen red-tailed bumblebee on crocus flowers.

    Specieswatch
    Britain’s red-tailed bumblebees may have an unlikely saviour in solar farms

October 2025

  • A plane wing at sunrise

    Weatherwatch
    Why the climate crisis is especially bad news for frightened flyers

  • Yvette Cooper.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Yvette Cooper defends children as young as 13 needing digital ID – as it happened

  • A person drives their car as the road is flooded during Storm Am

    Weatherwatch
    With most MPs ignorant of the urgency, how can the UK ever reach net zero?

  • Nine-spine stickleback

    Specieswatch
    Nine-spine sticklebacks: Britain’s tiny but mighty freshwater fish

September 2025

  • A TGV Euroduplex high-speed train in the countryside.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: EU survey gives a few hints on voter-friendly climate policies

    Survey finds 70% of people would support a fare-cutting rail fund – but taxes on beef and flying are less popular
  • Industrial building

    Weatherwatch
    Carbon capture – the get-out-of-jail-free card that does not actually work

    Engineers have been trying to perfect the technology for years but the maximum effect it could manage is far short of what the planet needs
  • Small, yellow ground-pine flowers

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: UK’s endangered ground-pine flourish in perfect year

    The past few months are likely to have suited this drought-tolerant plant that thrives in heat

August 2025

  • Trains at Glasgow Central Station

    Weatherwatch
    How Met Office could help more British trains run on time

  • three women shelter from heat under umbrellas

    Weatherwatch
    Wet-bulb temperature: how meteorologists assess heat stress levels

  • A female Eurasian lynx with four kittens in Sweden

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: push to reintroduce lynx into UK gathers momentum

  • a dry hosepipe

    Weatherwatch
    Yellow weather warnings for July thunderstorms that failed to materialise

July 2025

  • scottish mountain landscape

    Weatherwatch
    The Foehn effect: why it’s warmer on one side of a mountain than the other

    Temperature on lee side of mountain can be several degrees higher, which benefits farmers but also brings perils
  • Plane trees planted in Berkeley Square, London.

    Weatherwatch
    Weatherwatch: Why plane trees are cooler than you think

    Hybrid species draws up water during heatwaves, producing cooling effect on surroundings, say scientists
  • Two male stag beetles face each other with their long jaws lifted in the air like antlers

    Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: now is the best time to see the stag beetle

    At this time of year, the males, with their antler-like jaws, fly at dusk looking for much smaller females

June 2025

  • A weather balloon soars in the sky

    Weatherwatch
    Researchers call for urgent exploration of methods to cool Earth

  • A slope of large rocks piled up next to a sandy beach

    Weatherwatch
    Politicians seem reluctant to take necessary action over sea level rise

About 2,014 results for Paul Brown
1234...
Explore more on these topics