@jonathan-watts.bsky.social
Author of The Many Lives of James Lovelock, founder of Sumaúma.com and the Rainforest Journalism Fund. Guardian environment writer.
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialBrazilian 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
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialComo 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
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialBrazil’s most effective nature campaigner Marina Silva warns Flávio Bolsonaro will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the Amazon
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialHorrifying
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialThanks. I harbour similar concerns. Do you have a link for the META block?
@jonathan-watts.bsky.social“We” or “They”?
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialThanks for sharing Wies. Hope all well.
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialMore fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election
My take
@jonathan-watts.bsky.social“The monsters are back”
If you only read only one thing about the presidential election in Brazil, read this essay by Joāo Moreira Salles.
A scion of a powerful family, Salles addresses those in his class who cosy up to far right candidate Flávio Bolsonaro
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialWe worked together again on a data falsification scandal by British Nuclear Furls Limited that led to a rift with its biggest customers in Japan, and eventually resulted in the firing of senior executives, £40m in compensation and the long delay of the company’s privatisation plans. A huge loss.
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialPaul Brown always made time to advise and encourage young reporters.
I first worked with him in 1998 during the Tomaimura nuclear crisis when he combined encyclopaedic knowledge, calm guidance and wise words to look beyond the accident to structural causes.
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialPaul 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, which was a subject close to his heart.
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialRIP Paul Brown, a mentor, friend and journalistic hero.
Quiet-spoken but dogged and precise, he was an inspiration for me and many other environmental reporters.
He and John Vidal pioneered coverage of climate, nature and energy at The Guardian & far beyond
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialThreatening 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.
@jonathan-watts.bsky.socialThe Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms.
Ahead of a landmark climate lawsuit, confidential documents show how British scientist James Lovelock warned executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels in the 1960s.
