Amazon-based author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock. Global environment writer @Guardian. Founder @Sumaumajornal & @Amazon_RJF. Mostly on BlueSky 🦋
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This is the week! After four years’s of research and writing, my book, The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory finally hits the shelves.
It explores a century of science and environmental thinking through the life and relationships of one man... 🧵
Super-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report finds.
Oxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action
My article.
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Historic comeback in Brazil! And perhaps, more importantly, the emergence of a new playbook for beating the far right: Challenge social media algorithms in the courts, reclaim the flag, call out extractivist fascism and fill the streets and the networks.
Brazil, you beauty!
Lula says “something abominable is happening”in Brazil’s election amid reports that huge numbers of bus services are being withheld in areas where his support is strongest (São Paulo and Northeast), impeding voters from getting to polling stations.
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Lula tells reporters he has never before complained about elections he has been involved in, irrespective of whether he had won or lost. "But this time something abominable is happening."
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Amid claims of a deliberate pro-Bolsonaro attempt to suppress the vote in numerous parts of Brazil by sabotaging public transport, Lula warns of "abominable ... banditry" and urges people to keep trying to vote. Calls for voting to be extended by 2 hours until 7pm.
Dom Phillips on “fascist” Bolsonaro and his “more extreme” sons.
I look back at WhatsApp messages of murdered British journalist from last time a member of Bolsonaro family led in Brazil’s presidential election.
Prescient then, pertinent today.
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So much of the coverage of Brazil's election has focused on the southeast, so I decided to fly north to the Amazon, to Mucajaí - the most Bolsonarista town in Brazil's most Bolsonarista state - to understand what the vote means for the rainforest region + its inhabitants theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
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Mais de 100 organizações e especialistas de 25 países divulgaram uma carta aberta em que acusam grandes empresas de tecnologia de violar regras eleitorais brasileiras.
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Heart-breaking what we are losing to palm oil. Shame on us all.
A study of wild orangutans now suggests that mothers go out of their way to arrange play dates for their offspring
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Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level on record as pivotal vote looms for President Lula
New data shows forest clearance fell by 71.2% since 2022, the final year of Bolsonaro administration.
Story by me
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Como enfrentar os incêndios agravados pelo El Niño na Amazônia
Eu entrevistei Érika Berenguer, a autora de uma nova série de livros que oferece orientações para a prevenção e o combate aos incêndios florestais
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Marina Silva on Flávio Bolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the Amazon
Interview by @tomphillipsin
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Inside a car being swept away in floods in Chile.
Again: At this point we should be criminally prosecuting politicians, media commentators and lobbyists stopping us taking action on climate change.
They are endangering all of us.
If Bolsonaro wins in Brazil, it won’t just be Lula that is finished, it could also be the Amazon and democracy itself.
My take on why Workers Party success in curbing deforestation failed to register in first round poll
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Eminently do-able - UK grid upgrades represent investment in the future and will bring down costs as well as emissions, by @alex_j_clark and colleagues theguardian.com/business/ng-…
RIP Paul Brown, a mentor, friend and journalistic hero.
Quiet-spoken but dogged, he was an inspiration for me and so many other environmental reporters.
He and John Vidal pioneered coverage of the climate, nature and energy at The Guardian.
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Paul Brown filed the last of his many thousands of Guardian stories from a hospital bed. It was a typically trenchant reflection on his decades covering the environment that ended with a critique of the nuclear industry, a subject close to his heart.
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What an incredible human being.
RIP Dolly Parton.
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“This may be the best biography I’ve ever read”
A selection of goodreads reviews of The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory.
Threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to permafrost
Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds
Latest Q&A by me in tipping point series.
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