“What’s COP?”, asked my friend last week. It’s a bit unfair of me to quote him: he lives abroad, where media coverage…

You’re tired. You’re burned out. You don’t know how you keep getting up in the morning, keep switching on the news, keep…

In an instant, my life is no longer under my control. I become a little institutionalised at home, reluctant to leave…

GRETA, says the text, and two hands grip the pigtails behind the girl’s naked body. What clearer threat to girls and…

In July, I gave the most emotional talk I’ve ever given, and the one of which I’m most proud, based on…

“Antarctica meltdown could double sea level rise”, went the headlines in 2016, “runaway melting” predicted by “alarming science”. They were reporting a…

This is an invited contribution to the Guardian Political Science blog. As a climate scientist, I’m under pressure to be a political…