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Jonathan Watts

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

October 2024

  • Firefighters battling a wildfire in Corinthia, Greece, in October.

    Wildfires are burning through humanity’s carbon budget, study shows

    Forests around world being changed from carbon sinks into carbon sources, making it harder to slow global heating

September 2024

  • A Ford Fiesta car stuck in flood water under a railway bridge in Slough earlier this week

    View from the Amazon
    Britain’s tropical rain and parched Amazon are new norms in a messed-up climate

    Jonathan Watts
  • A man in a red shirt stands on a mound of waste near brown cows and large grey storks

    Consumerism and the climate crisis threaten equitable future for humanity, report says

  • Giant tortoise surrounded by green vegetation

    Giant tortoises in Seychelles face threat from luxury hotel development

  • Prof James Lovelock in 2004.

    The long read
    A cool flame: how Gaia theory was born out of a secret love affair

August 2024

  • Aerial view of an area of Amazon rainforest deforested by illegal fire in the municipality of Labrea, Amazonas State

    Brazil sends 1,500 firefighters to combat Amazon forest blazes

  • Graphic of refugees, cycle couriers, construction workers and street cleaners

    Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

  • A firefighter is silhouetted hosing down a tree against flames burning in a forest.

    Hotter than ever
    ‘The place I love is in flames’: the people living and working in extreme heat

  • Graphic for heat story

    Hotter than ever
    ‘We should have better answers by now’: climate scientists baffled by unexpected pace of heating

  • Hotter than ever
    Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year

  • Wildfires in Brazil’s Pantanal wetland fuelled ‘by climate disruption’

July 2024

  • Illustration showing an oil facility and US, Canada, Norway, UK and Australia national flags

    The other petrostates
    ‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

    Suggestions definition of petrostate is too narrow as many rich countries that could phase out fossil fuels double down
  • FILE PHOTO: Reuters interviews JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. CEO Jamie Dimon in Miami, Florida<br>FILE PHOTO: Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., pauses as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Miami, Florida, U.S., February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo

    Senators accuse JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon of backtracking on climate commitments

    Exclusive: Letter from senators, led by Elizabeth Warren, says JPMorgan may have misled investors and public
  • Dogs are seen near the border wall, on the border between Mexico and US, during a winter storm, in Ciudad Juarez

    View from the Amazon
    Far right using climate crisis as bogeyman to frighten voters and build higher walls

    Jonathan Watts
    It is no coincidence that ever more extreme politics has come at a time of ever more extreme weather

June 2024

  • A firefighter runs away from a wildfire near Athens, Greece, in 2023.

    Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds

    Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere
  • Sunrise over Walney Offshore Wind Farm off the Cumbrian Coast in the UK

    Science Weekly
    What are the main UK parties promising on climate and is it enough? – podcast

    Ian Sample is joined by the global environment editor, Jon Watts, and the biodiversity reporter, Phoebe Weston, to find out what the election manifestos have to say about nature and climate, and whether anyone is promising the level of action scientists are asking for.

    • World’s top banks ‘greenwashing their role in destruction of the Amazon’

    • ‘Disappointing and surprising’: Why isn’t this a climate election in the UK?

    • Devastating Brazil floods made twice as likely by burning of fossil fuels and trees

May 2024

  • View of dry-looking trees on the banks of the dried-up Rio Negro, seen as a strip of brown, cracked mud and silt.

    More than third of Amazon rainforest struggling to recover from drought, study finds

    ‘Critical slowing down’ of recovery raises concern over forest’s resilience to ecosystem collapse
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