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Jonathan Watts

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

May 2025

  • Head and shoulders shot of David Attenborough in blue shirt against dark background

    Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more

    This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh eyes

April 2025

  • Indigenous representatives, climate activists, influencers and community leaders protest in front of the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia, Brazil.

    Will Cop30 in Belém help or harm the Amazon?

    Trees are being cleared for rainforest mega-event – but state governor says a ‘new history’ is under way
  • A JBS facility in Tucuma, Para state, Brazil pictured in 2021.

    Our unequal earth
    Green groups decry plan to list world’s biggest meatpacking company on NYSE

    Critics fear decision to list Brazil-based firm JBS, long linked to Amazon’s deforestation, will add to the climate crisis

    • Bibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goals

    • The life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforest

    • Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again

January 2025

  • A pied tamarin at the Sauim Castanheira Wildlife Refuge in Manaus.

    Fate of endangered monkey hinges on Brazilian city’s planning policy

    Pied tamarin has narrow range and is found only around borders of Manaus in the Amazon rainforest

December 2024

  • Debris strewn across a beach where only the foundations of houses remain

    2024’s most costly climate disasters killed 2,000 people and caused $229bn in damages, data shows

  • Composite of the number 2025 and Nigel Farage lifting his eyebrow and shouting, David Bowie cradling an electric guitar, a Polaroid of Leigh Bowery in make-up, a character with a hat and antennae from Memoir of a Snail and Liam Gallagher singing into a microphone

    From climate denial to gothic movies to ‘treat culture’ … what to expect in 2025

  • Amazon rainforest aerial view

    Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up heat

  • Al-Ghat national park in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh region.

    Land degradation expanding by 1m sq km a year, study shows

November 2024

  • Prof James Lovelock in 2004. Photograph: Tim Cuff/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair – podcast

  • Bada Bagh monuments and wind farm in Rajasthan

    US and India lead G20 on climate action, report says

  • John Prescott smiling with a blurred protest placard visible in the background

    John Prescott, a ‘critical force’ in climate policy, will be missed at Cop29

  • a sign reads 'BlackRock'

    BlackRock accused of contributing to climate and human rights abuses

  • View from the Amazon
    Survival of the richest: Trump, climate and the logic of the doomsday bunker

    Jonathan Watts

  • Spain braces for new storms as flooding disaster’s political fallout continues

  • Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us

October 2024

  • Aerial image of a busy wharf and the construction of a large yacht

    Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam

  • Smoke rises from burning trees with a sunset in the background

    View from the Amazon
    Would abandoning false hope help us to tackle the climate crisis?

    Jonathan Watts
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