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Jonathan Watts

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

November 2025

  • Aerial view of forest fire and deforestation in the Amazon.

    Science Weekly
    Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode one: the stakes – podcast

    Podcast27:57
  • A sign for the Cop30 summit in Brazil

    Science Weekly
    ‘We must change course’: a stark climate warning from the UN chief – podcast

    Podcast15:54

October 2025

  • Pollution and steam rise from a power station in Cincinnati, Ohio

    America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam

  • UN secretary general António Guterres speaks to the Guardian and Sumaúma about the 'failure' of the Cop process to limit global heating to 1.5C and why defending the rights of indigenous communities should be a top priority for global leaders

    UN chief António Guterres: 'We don't want to see the Amazon become a savannah' - video

    Video7:22
  • A family wading through sea water flooding a village

    ‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

  • Walkers near woods with oak tree in foreground

    UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights

  • World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds

  • Brazil to ask countries at Cop30 to vastly increase biofuel use, leak suggests

  • Indigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing state intimidation

  • ‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

  • Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation

  • Science Weekly
    Remembering primatologist Jane Goodall – podcast

    Podcast17:05

September 2025

  • An aerial view of the Amazon rainforest, thick with trees, and the Curua river snaking through it

    Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

    Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestation
  • A scuba diver alongside extensive coral bleaching at Ningaloo Reef in Australia in February 2025

    World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

    Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

    • View from the Amazon
      Extreme weather and extreme politics go hand in hand – Trump and Musk are pushing both

      Jonathan Watts

    • The big emitters
      ‘There is only one player’: why China is becoming a world leader in green energy

    • ‘Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold’: the treaty to stop fossil fuel production

August 2025

  • A climate rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Inside the Guardian
    Debunking climate misinformation is becoming a full-time job – but you can help defend the facts

    Jonathan Watts
    The political pushback against positive green progress has been shocking. But as corporations and those in power turn away, the overwhelming majority of people in the world want more ambitious climate action, writes Jonathan Watts
  • Deforestation in the Amazon

    Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds

    Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
  • A road sepeatess rainforest and soya bean fields in Belterra, Pará state, Brazil

    Brazil authorities suspend key Amazon rainforest protection measure

    Suspension of Soy moratorium could open up area of rainforest the size of Portugal to destruction
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